Viewmount, 10 Culduthel Road, Inverness

Viewmount is a house dating from around 1810-1820, with alterations in the later 19th century and more recent internal subdivision into four flatted apartments. It is a single-storey and attic structure with a raised basement, built on a steeply sloping site to the west. The rectangular house has east and west elevations, originally symmetrical with three bays each. The construction is primarily pinned red rubble stone, accented by contrasting tooled sandstone dressings and margins.

The north elevation features a splayed recessed entrance flanked by a decorative cast-iron balustrade. Flanking this entrance are hoodmoulded windows, with the window to the right now partially obscured by a modern glazed porch. The west elevation is symmetrical over two storeys and includes a full-height bowed bay set back within a splayed recess, with a raised basement and raised ground floor windows. The corners at the northwest and southwest have wide chamfered angles, corresponding to octagonal rooms within. The east elevation, facing the street, has a three-bay arrangement, with a wider central window and a window on the left now converted into a door. The south return elevation is largely obscured by a modern porch and additions.

The windows have varied glazing; some original 12-pane sashes remain. Later canted dormers have been added to the east and west sides, along with paired chimney stacks. The roof is a shallow peinded platform structure with a central conical glazed light and deep, exaggerated eaves.

The original interior layout included an entrance lobby leading to a central, top-lit, octagonal hall. This hall connects to octagonal rooms in the southwest and northwest corners, and demi-octagonal rooms in the northeast and southeast, all now subdivided. Original features in the southwest and northwest rooms include fielded panelled dados, doors, and moulded doorpieces. Decorative cornices adorn the ceilings, and the northwest drawing room features a central roundel.

The attic floor was sub-divided into a series of rooms, with a central hall creating an octagonal room in the later 19th century. This upper level is accessed by a small staircase with barley-sugar twist cast-iron balusters, also dating from the same period. A conical top light with guilloche moulding sits within the central hall. Later 19th-century simple panelled doors are present throughout.

A coped rubble wall separates the property from the street to the east. A pedestrian entrance is flanked by painted square cast-iron gate piers (from the later 19th century) set within small curved quadrants, and approached by steps with early 19th-century decorative cast-iron balusters.