Dipple House

Dipple House is a two-storey and attic, three-bay house with a core dating back to the 17th century, likely built by Alexander Todd of Fochabers in the earlier 19th century. The exterior is harled with polished stone margins, featuring a base course on the principal elevation, projecting cills, and strip quoins.

The east elevation is asymmetrical, with a gabled porch at the center of the ground floor, which has a panelled timber door and a two-pane letterbox fanlight, along with a window to the left. The left flanking bay features a three-light canted window on the ground floor, while the first floor has gabled windows with decorative stone finials, breaking the eaves in the center and left bays. To the right, a gabled bay has a three-light canted window on the ground floor and a window on the first floor, with a decorative stone finial at the apex. The attic has skylights, and there are 20th-century additions to the outer right.

The north-east elevation is also asymmetrical, with 20th-century additions to the left and a gabled bay to the right, which has boarded and harled piend-roofed additions on the ground floor.

The west elevation is nearly symmetrical with four bays, featuring a glazed door in the penultimate bay on the right side of the ground floor and regular fenestration throughout. The first floor has regular fenestration as well, and there are modern skylights placed regularly in the attic.

The south elevation is asymmetrical and consists of three bays. The center bay has a window on the ground floor and a piend-roofed window breaking the eaves above on the first floor. To the left, there is a tabled bay with an off-center window on the ground floor, and to the right, a gabled bay has a pitch-roofed glasshouse on the ground floor.

The house predominantly features four-pane and twelve-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered in graded grey slate with a stone ridge, and it has coped stone skews with moulded skewputts. The gablehead and wallhead stacks are made of corniced ashlar and have octagonal cans, with cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, many original skirting boards, cornicing, and mouldings are preserved, along with panelled shutters on the canted windows. The drawing and sitting rooms, which open off the entrance hall at the front, feature fine white marble chimneypieces with yellow marble inlay, decorated with swagged urns and ram's heads, complemented by modern slate hearths and marble slips.