Tochieneal House

Tochieneal House is a later 18th-century building that was re-cast, enlarged, and re-fronted, likely by architect William Robertson around 1830. It features a single-storey, three-bay northern façade with a two-storey structure over a raised basement, and a five-bay rear (southern) elevation. The house has a double pile design with slightly lower room heights at the rear, as indicated by the window arrangement. The exterior is harled with contrasting tooled ashlar margins and dressings.

The central door on the northern front is concealed by a bowed corniced and painted ashlar porch, which is supported by fluted ashlar Doric columns. This porch is infilled with long flanking sidelights and a glazed fanlight above. The east and west return elevations each have two bays with long windows, although those towards the rear are blind. A single later gabled dormer interrupts the wallhead on both sides. The five-bay rear elevation features a central entrance accessed by a simple footbridge that oversails the raised basement and connects to a long single-storey building.

The house has multi-pane glazing, angle margins, an eaves band and cornice, paired corniced stacks, and a piended platform slate roof. There are some later 18th-century spearhead railings with urn finials on the stiffeners.

Inside, the entrance hall leads to a dining room and parlour on the right and left, respectively, connected by a passage to the stairwell. The passage is flanked by built-on cupboards, with the left cupboard fitted with a series of drawers, and features a corniced plaster overthrow. The rear rooms on the raised ground and first floors are of lower height, while the front attic rooms have comb ceilings, all served by a single staircase. The attic rooms are equipped with original decorative cast-iron basket grates, likely made by Fraser of Banff Ironworks. The basement kitchen includes a cast-iron stove and oven, also probably from Fraser of Banff, and there is an original wooden servant's bed in the basement room.

At the rear, there is a long single-storey building constructed of harl pointed rubble, linked to the main house by the footbridge. This building has a door and window on its eastern elevation, a wallhead and tall ridge stack made of brick, and a piended slate roof.