Kennels, Darnaway Castle

HOUSE: A and W Reid, dated 1878. Asymmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay

SE facing house. Tooled coursed rubble, tooled ashlar

dressings.

Centre door in advanced, gabled and dated porch, flanked left

by gabled bay with canted bay window. Decorative brattishing

to bay window piended roof; coronet and initials in gablet

above 1st floor window. Bipartite to right of porch with

plaque above; 2 gabletted dormers break wallhead. Further

pair gabletted dormers in NE return elevation of rear 3-bay

wing with blocked centre door (to former gun room) now

window. 2 blind windows in NE gable.

Mainly 6-pane glazing; corniced end battery stacks;

decorative bargeboards; decorative cast-iron gable apex

finials; slate roofs with projecting eaves.

KENNELS: also A and W Reid, 1878. Single storey and attic,

SE 5-bay range fronted by kennel yard. Tooled course rubble,

tooled ashlar dressings.

Advanced centre and outer bays, at centre with round-headed

entrance flanked by round-headed windows with similar pair

attic windows above. Outer bays with double arched arcade as

loggia fronting kennel entrances. Gabled SW and NE return

elevations with centre doors and windows linked by moulded

string course at impost level. Further entrance in gabled

centre bay, rear elevation. Cat-slide roof at rear projects

to form continuous verandah supported by cast-iron columns.

Multi-pane glazing; single coped ridge stack; decorative

cast-iron gable finials; decorative bargeboards; slate roof.