Steading, Kilcluan

William Robertson, 1825-6. 2-storey S facing house over

raised basement, 3 bays. Rubble frontage; modern harling

at raised basement level and to gables and rear; tooled and

polished ashlar dressings.

Centre door set in shallow round-headed recess; fanlight

with decorative glazing; slightly later pedimented porch

fronts doorway approached by flight of steps oversailing

raised basement. Outer ground floor windows with panelled

aprons also set in shallow round-headed recesses. 2 ground

floor windows in W gable; regular rear fenestration, now

partially masked by later single storey over raised

basement wing. Mainly 12-pane glazing. 2 modern rear dormers;

coped end wallhead stack; piended platform slate roof.

INTERIOR: curved staircase with slender wooden balusters.

Panelled doors and window shutters; moulded doorpieces

with simple key pattern decoration. Grey marble chimneypiece

in drawing-room with later 19th century ornate cast-iron

grate. Cast-iron grates of circa 1825 survive eleswhere

in house.

STEADING: 1815. U-plan range of single storey and single storey

and loft, built around rectangular court closed at S with coped

rubble wall with later ball-finialled gatepiers and

re-used wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Rubble, tooled rubble

dressings. Centre block of steading with segmental-headed

arch leading to rear lane. Slate roofs; stone ridges.

WALLED GARDEN: 1815. Substantial square rubbled walled

garden to W of steading and house.