Keeper's House, Darnaway Castle

The Kennels at Darnaway Castle, designed by architects A and W Reid in 1878, is a single-storey building with an attic, featuring a southeast-facing, five-bay range that is fronted by a kennel yard. The structure is built of tooled coursed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings.

The central and outer bays are advanced, with the center bay featuring a round-headed entrance flanked by round-headed windows, and a similar pair of attic windows above. The outer bays have a double-arched arcade that serves as a loggia in front of the kennel entrances. The southwest and northeast return elevations have central doors and windows, linked by a moulded string course at the impost level. There is an additional entrance in the gabled center bay on the rear elevation. A cat-slide roof at the rear projects to form a continuous verandah supported by cast-iron columns. The building features multi-pane glazing, a single coped ridge stack, decorative cast-iron gable finials, decorative bargeboards, and a slate roof.

The house, also designed by A and W Reid in 1878, is asymmetrical, two-storey, and three-bay, with a southeast-facing facade made of tooled coursed rubble and tooled ashlar dressings. It has a central door set in an advanced, gabled, and dated porch, flanked on the left by a gabled bay that features a canted bay window. The bay window has decorative brattishing on its piended roof, and there are coronet and initials in the gablet above the first-floor window. To the right of the porch, there is a bipartite window with a plaque above it. The house has two gabletted dormers that break the wallhead, with a further pair of gabletted dormers in the northeast return elevation of the rear three-bay wing, which has a blocked center door (originally leading to a gun room) now converted into a window. The northeast gable features two blind windows. The house primarily has six-pane glazing, corniced end battery stacks, decorative bargeboards, decorative cast-iron gable apex finials, and slate roofs with projecting eaves.