Cambusnethan House

Cambusnethan House is an 18th-century mansion designed by James Gillespie Graham in 1819. This Tudor revival priory-style building is two storeys high with a sunk basement and features a symmetrical rectangular plan with nine bays. The exterior is constructed of yellow ashlar sandstone and includes buttressed crocketed pinnacles, a gabled central block with a porte cochere, and flanking wings that have octagonal corner towers.

The north elevation showcases the porte cochere with a Tudor arch entrance, flanked by paired engaged colonnettes. The design includes a base course, a cill band to the upper storey, a corbelled cornice, and stugged hoodmoulds over the openings. The ground floor has pointed arch windows, while the upper floor features rectangular windows. The central block is flanked by off-set diagonal buttresses, which have missing pinnacles, and above the four-light Tudor arch window with loop tracery, there are multifoil oculi in the crossgable. The double bays on either side end in three-stage, castellated towers with arrow slits.

The south elevation mirrors the north but has an advanced canted bay at the ground level of the central block, below a large square window. Rectangular panels flank the oculus window, and the pinnacles on the buttresses are intact, although the wall to the left bays is in a ruinous state. The left corner features a larger octagonal tower.

The east elevation is four bays wide and symmetrical, with two central bays and a slightly recessed bay to the right. It includes doorways in the octagonal corner towers and large arrow slits, as well as cross arrow slits. The west elevation is three bays wide and asymmetrical, with a narrow single bay at the centre and an octagonal tower to the left. The right side has an advanced canted bay that ends in a large octagonal tower with bipartite segmental arch windows at the third stage.

Unfortunately, the interior of Cambusnethan House has been completely gutted by fire, and the windows and roofing have been destroyed.