High Palacecraig House

High Palacecraig House is a largely early 19th-century Georgian country villa with associated wings and outhouses. The main house is two storeys and has two bays, with slightly later single-storey wings flanking it. Extensive single-storey outhouse ranges form a U-shaped arrangement to the rear, built in phases from the early 19th century onwards.

The symmetrical entrance elevation of the original house is white harled, with a shallow, projecting central bay. Features include a base course, a window sill course, a cornice, and a blocking course. The doorway has a simplified pilaster architrave with plain consoles and a canopy; the pilasters have recessed panel detailing. The windows are single-light, currently with modern glazing. The roof is a shallow piended slate roof, and within the roof space is an original oval cupola with a classical plaster frieze. Ashlar chimney stacks are at each end. The site slopes slightly from east to west.

The flanking wings each have a shallow, projecting bay, marked by distinctive wide segmental-arched windows, which may have originally contained two mullions, similar to those at Garnkirk. The wings are white harled, with a base course and narrow, raised vertical margins, mirroring the appearance of the main block. Side windows in both pavilions were built up, probably during the 19th century. The original glazing pattern and interior plasterwork have been lost. The roofs are piended and slate-covered.

The rear elevation is of unrendered squared and snecked sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. A bowed stair tower with a conical slate roof is centrally located, featuring a large multi-paned sash and case window.

The symmetry of the flanking windows was disrupted during the addition of later subsidiary ranges extending north, resulting in ground floor windows being moved closer to the stair tower. All windows have narrow, raised margins and droved dressings, with multi-paned sash and case glazing.

Inside, the rear stair tower contains a stone staircase. A large stone newel was recently retooled in 1990. The entrance hall features a recessed niche facing the door, and a smaller, timber-architraved niche above with a moulded sill.

The outhouses, likely dating to the early 19th century, consist of roughly symmetrical single-storey ranges extending north behind the house, though parts of these ranges have been demolished towards the north. They are built of sandstone random rubble with droved dressings and feature re-used lintels. An arch in the east wall of the east range, possibly an early gateway predating the house, now has rubble infill, a small door with a timber lintel to the right, and a modern window to the left. Openings in the surviving wall of the east range have been built up with brick. A later 19th-century brick-walled garden, largely intact, is located to the west.