Wester Moffat House, Clarkston

Wester Moffat House is a large, asymmetrical house dating from 1859-62, designed by Charles Wilson and constructed in a 17th-century revival style. The house is four storeys high with a basement, built with squared and snecked sandstone rubble. A prominent crenellated, square-plan tower sits at the centre, with crowstepped gables and corner turrets.

The west-facing principal elevation features a four-stage tower with a small basement window, a tall stone mullioned bipartite window to the first storey, a single window to the second storey, and a corbelled, bowed oriel window to the third storey. Above this are two small windows, terminating in a crenellated parapet. An engaged turret with a crenellated parapet is set into the southeast corner. A regularly fenestrated gabled bay projects to the left, while a recessed double-gabled bay is positioned to the right. A single-storey, lean-to porch with splayed stone steps and a coped balustrade leads to a shouldered-arch entrance. An off-set timber door, a traceried, mullioned and transomed window, and a smaller window are located to the left of the entrance.

The east-facing rear elevation has a gabled bay to the left, a small square basement window, and a stone mullioned tripartite window to the ground floor with a projecting lintel and corbelled cill. A window to the second floor is accompanied by a small window to its right. A bracketed corbel table sits beneath a dropped central panel displaying a coat-of-arms. Flanking turrets are topped with candle-snuffer roofs, and a blind arrowslit is in the gable head. A modern conservatory is located on the ground floor, and a double-gabled bay is situated to the right, with a modern basement addition and a continuous machiolated hoodmould to the second-storey windows.

The north-facing side elevation demonstrates an advanced, double-gabled bay to the centre, with irregular fenestration and a door to the left. A single-storey gabled out-shot sits to the left, and a two-storey gabled out-shot with a corbelled turret is on the right. The south-facing side elevation has a continuous cill course to the ground floor and a bracketed corbel table to the third floor. The fenestration is irregular, and a single-storey, canted bay projects to the right. A decorative, stepped gable breaks through the eaves, and symmetrical, corbelled corner turrets are present.

The house has plate glass, timber-framed sash and case windows, fishscale slates, lead flashing, cast-iron rainwater goods, and coped gable stacks.

The interior is characterised by a small enclosed entrance lobby with an encaustic tiled floor, leading to a large, top-lit stairwell. Rooms are arranged around this central axis and decorated in a 17th-century revival style, featuring timber panelled walls and elaborate strapwork plaster ceilings. Of particular note is the star-patterned ceiling in the east drawing room.