Strabane House, Brodick, Arran

Stablecourt, Strabane House is a large, asymmetrical, two-storey Picturesque villa, probably designed by George Paterson of Hamilton Estates Office in Hamilton, and dated 1883. Additions to the rear were made around 1900, in the style of Sir J. J. Burnet. A stablecourt was constructed in 1887. The house is built of stugged and snecked pink rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings, and has a grey slate gabled roof. Key features include a deep base course; deep, bracketed eaves with moulded bargeboards and finialled gables; decorative hammer braces and king post trusses; and mostly single and bipartite four-pane sash and case windows, with some tripartite canted and projecting windows to the rear additions. Corniced ridge stacks are also present.

The front elevation has four bays. A gabled entrance porch occupies the re-entrant angle, with a window, panelled door to the right return with a fanlight and shouldered doorcase. Bipartite windows are present to the right, with an initial panel at the lintel, a dormerheaded window above, and a dormer to the left. A gabled section is advanced to the left with a canted window, a string course, and a date panel. The first floor is chamfered to a square at the gablehead. To the far right, another gabled section features a corniced projecting window at ground floor and a bipartite window at the outer right, along with a bipartite window with a corniced hoodmould to the right return.

The rear gable to the left has a gabled porch and various windows. A gabled wing advances to the right in two stepped sections, including a porch, door, and various windows. A later bay (circa 1900) sits at a transverse angle, with various doors and windows, a catslide dormer, ashlar-coped skews, and wallhead kneelers.

The side elevation displays a principal gable to the right, with a bipartite window to the ground floor, a bipartite stair window, and a single window to the first floor. Two recessed two-bay wings are present to the left with various windows. A gable of the transverse bay is visible at the far left.

The interior of the main house was not inspected.

The single-storey, L-plan stablecourt, located to the rear of the house, is constructed of the same stugged and snecked pink rubble sandstone with a piended grey slate roof. It features a curvilinear-gabled porch to the principal elevation, alongside various doors and windows and a piended dormer.

A single-storey, rectangular-plan, detached outbuilding, forming the third side of the stablecourt, is also constructed of stugged and snecked pink rubble sandstone with a slate roof, and has a gambrel at one end. It features fixed multi-pane windows, a coped ridge stack, and various roof vents.