'Barracks' And Servant's Tunnel, Invermoriston House

Circa 1810, single storey, 4-bay building over basement.

Coursed bullfaced rubble, with contrasting polished sandstone

ashlar margins and dressings; random rubble to basement

frontage, also with ashlar dressings. Symmetrical N and S

elevations with slightly advanced centre 2 bays and blind

fenestration to rear. Basement area to S fronts sunken court

and former entrances to rear basement service area of earlier Invermoriston House. Ground floor and basement defined by

polished ashlar band course. Entrances in E and W gables of

ground floor, masked by later timber porches. Also in basement;

all ground floor windows with ashlar margins and rusticated

long and short detailing 12-pane glazing.

Ashlar quoins to all angles; paired corniced ridge stacks;

shallow piended slate roof with projecting eaves.

Sunken forecourt reached at E by flight of steps closed by

cast-iron pedestrian gate with spearhead detailing; matching

railing as guard-rails to sunken court and as balustrade to

bridge over servants' tunnel. Servants' tunnel with tooled

ashlar arch ring leads from basement area to lane at W,

passing under driveway.