Mains Of Drummuir

Mains of Drummuir is a small Laird's house dating from the early to mid-17th century, featuring three storeys. The building is constructed of whitewashed rubble with tooled rubble dressings. Its frontage is built against a slope, with a two-storey rear section. The three-bay frontage was remodelled in 1902 and is now accessed at the first-floor level, with the central entrance reached by a flight of stone steps that oversails the former ground floor entrance. The exterior has harl pointed rubble, tooled rubble, and ashlar dressings.

To the left of the central entrance is a narrow window, while a later square window is located to the right, where a former door once was. The wallhead features two pedimented dormers: the left one has a 17th-century monogrammed pediment, and the right one has a pediment from around 1900. There is a later entrance to the ground floor located to the right of the steps. The southwest gable has a single window with paired small attic windows above it, and the northeast gable has one similar attic window along with a blocked pair of round gun-loops and a re-set monogrammed pediment. The ground floor of the rear elevation features three circular gun loops arranged in a triangular formation. The early windows have chamfered margins and varied glazing. The building has coped end stacks of slightly unequal size, with a Banffshire slate roof at the front and Welsh slate at the rear.

Inside, the former ground floor retains the central entrance, which is now concealed by the projecting outer stairs that include a substantial draw-bar hole. There is a hollowed recess for a circular stairwell in the northern angle, along with associated splayed vents. The rear, front, and northeast gable walls all have splayed vents or loops, but there is no evidence of a fireplace. Glazed triple gun loops illuminate a splayed opening in the northeast room, and otherwise, no original features are visible.