Tomintoul House, Cruachy

Tomintoul House, designed by architect William Robertson from Elgin in 1841, is a symmetrical two-storey house featuring a wide three-bay northeast gabled entrance front, symmetrical return gables, and a two-storey, two-bay rear wing. There is a small addition from the mid-20th century in the southern re-entrant angle. The exterior is harled with tooled ashlar margins. The central door is concealed by a projecting gabled porch, which has a datestone from 1861 above a shallow segmental-headed entrance with a double-leaf panelled door.

The outer bays project two storeys, with tripartite windows on the ground floor and bipartite windows on the first floor, the centre of which is topped by a small stilted gablet. The north elevation of the rear wing features a pair of similar bipartite windows on the ground floor, with first-floor windows also under similar gablets. All two- and three-light windows have thick wooden mullions, and the single windows share similar detailing. The larger windows have lying-pane glazing with margins.

The house has paired tapering and corniced ashlar stacks set diagonally on facetted rectangular bases, along with a single centre ridge stack. The roof is shallow pitched and covered with slate, featuring projecting eaves, plain bargeboards with pronounced blocked joist detailing, and wooden ridge finials on the gables. Inside, there is a curved centre rear stair with simple cast-iron balusters, and the ground floor public rooms have plain ceiling moulded cornices.