Findrassie House

Findrassie House is a building dating from around 1790, likely built on an earlier site and possibly incorporating earlier materials. An addition was made by William Robertson in 1826. The house is two stories high with an attic and features a south-facing three-bay front, along with a lower two-story wing set back at the west gable. The front is made of squared tooled ashlar, while the flanks, rear, and wing are harled, with tooled and polished ashlar dressings and margins.

The central entrance is reached by a short flight of steps and features a corniced, lugged, and moulded doorpiece with a rectangular fanlight that has 'Gothic' glazing, leading to a panelled door. The front has regular fenestration, with longer windows on the first floor and single windows in the east and west gables. The rear originally had symmetrical windows, but this has been altered over time.

The 1826 wing has ground and single first-floor windows, with a large regular two-bay window pattern on the north elevation. There are two later piended dormers, primarily with 12-pane glazing. The main house has rusticated quoins, a moulded eaves cornice, tall end stacks with moulded copes, and slate roofs that feature modern solar panels at the ridge.

Inside, the entrance stair hall contains a shaped cantilevered staircase that rises through the house. The main public rooms were originally located on the first floor and were refurbished in 1826, featuring some key pattern door jambs and plaster cornices with anthemion detailing. There are also some late 18th-century raised and fielded panelled doors. The large first-floor drawing room has been divided since then. The ground floor dining room features a mid-19th-century black marble chimneypiece and provides access to the 1826 service area in the west wing. The present drawing room has a white marble chimneypiece, while a re-used late 17th or early 18th-century moulded hearth surround is found in the southwest attic room. Some rooms have 19th-century cast-iron bedroom grates. A pair of re-used raised and fielded panelled doors, likely from the first-floor drawing room, close a storage cupboard in the service area of the west wing. The rear basement area includes a vaulted cold store.

The gatepiers, dating from around 1790, are a pair of square ashlar structures with corniced square caps topped by ball finials. They are accompanied by a pair of cast-iron carriage gates.