Vallay House (Taigh Bhalaigh), Vallay

A large, two-storey, irregular-plan, multi-gabled mansion house (1901–04) in the Scots Baronial style, with crowstepped gables, circular turrets and roundel windows. The house is located on the now uninhabited tidal island of Vallay, off the northwest coast of North Uist, Western Isles.

The house is largely constructed of local gneiss stone with a cement/concrete rendered exterior. The exterior walls are complete to the roofline throughout the property, with wall head chimneys. Some sash and case timber window frames with multi-panel upper sashes also survive. Some sections of the roof and the internal floors have collapsed.

The interior has not been seen (2020). The house is understood to have 25 rooms. Remnants of the early 20th century interior decorative scheme (evident in 2009 and 2015 photography) are known to survive throughout the building. These include glazed tile and timber fireplaces, decorative plasterwork, carved timber window surrounds and fitted shelving recesses.

There is a boundary wall of gneiss rubble construction to the west of the house, with cement coping in a castellated style.