Pittensair

Pittensair is a two-storey, three-bay house built in 1735 by master mason James Ogilvie. The exterior features harled rubble with ashlar dressings, and there are later additions on the east gable and south elevation. The north-facing front has a central door, which is concealed by a later gabled wooden porch. The doorway has a moulded surround, as do all the front windows, which have been widened in the outer bays on both the ground and first floors.

The rear of the house has a symmetrical arrangement of windows, with a small ground window on each side of the centre door (the western one is blocked) and a narrow window in the centre of the first floor. There is a single window on the ground floor and a long window on the first floor in the west gable, featuring 8- and 12-pane glazing. An oval oculus in the west gable provides light to the loft, with 'James Ogilvie' carved above and 'Marjory Steuart' below.

The house has moulded corniced copes on the end stacks, with a narrow pulvinated stringcourse below the cornice and a small ledge on the inner face, which also has a moulded underside. The skewputts are shaped, with the northwest one dated, while the flat skews are continuously moulded on the underside and splayed at the base to follow the line of the bellcast roof. The roof is covered with graded Banffshire slate and has a stone ridge.

At the rear, there is a later single-storey rubble extension that masks the rear centre entrance, as well as a single-storey, three-bay cottage on the east gable, which is now gutted. This cottage has moulded architraves around the centre door, and both structures have end stacks with corrugated iron roofs.

Inside, there is a small circular cantilevered staircase with a moulded underside, a polished wood balustrade, and slender wooden balusters. The original moulded chimneypieces remain in the west ground and first-floor rooms, along with simple moulded ceiling cornices. The loft features a 'stake' and 'hris' (wattle, clay, and straw) party wall.