Milton Brodie House

Milton Brodie House is an early to mid-18th century U-plan courtyard house, with a prominent southern facade dating from 1835 to 1840, designed in the style of William Robertson of Elgin. The house appears to have been constructed in phases, incorporating earlier elements.

The southern facade is rendered and lined to resemble ashlar, while the flanking and rear elevations are harled with pointed detailing, and feature ashlar dressings and margins. The principal seven-bay southern front screens an earlier rear section. The central doorway is flanked by narrow side lights and a tetrastyle Ionic porch with monolith columns. Long, paired windows flank the entrance, lighting a drawing room to the left and a dining room to the right. The outer bays, originally gable ends of earlier wings, have slightly advanced, two-storey, pedimented window sections rising above the wallhead, adorned with anthemion acroteria supported by ornate scroll brackets. The ground floor windows have shallow aprons within moulded, lugged surrounds. Paired stacks crown the pediments, and end bays are united by a continuous cornice and blocking course.

The west elevation comprises two two-storey and attic, three-bay blocks. The block to the southwest dates from the late 18th century and features a central door, while the north-western block was constructed in 1900. These blocks are linked by a set-back west gable of the original two-storey and attic house, forming a small U-plan courtyard.

The rear elevation is irregular, with a projecting gabled stairwell.

The southern facade has lying-pane glazing, with partially blind windows in the outer bays; elsewhere, there is 12-pane glazing. Paired square ashlar end and ridge stacks are present in the front, while various coped end stacks are located elsewhere. The earliest portion of the house retains early 18th century cavetto skewputts, and the entire house is roofed with slate.

The interior features a wide entrance hall, leading to the drawing room on the left and the dining room on the right, all dating from 1835 to 1840. The drawing room has tall double doors with a corniced overdoor, a carved wooden chimneypiece with marble slips, and a decorative plaster ceiling cornice featuring an anthemion design. The dining room has similar paired doors, an Ionic columned screen, a simple ceiling cornice, and a white-painted chimneypiece with marble slips. Fielded panelled doors and window shutters from the 18th century survive in the older part of the house, which has lower ceilings.

The property is complemented by two pairs of mid-18th century gatepiers flanking the east and south entrances. These are square, polished ashlar with shaped caps and ball finials on attenuated bases.