Armoury House (former Drill Hall) Birnam

Armoury House, formerly a drill hall, was built around 1895-1897 and is a 1 and 2-storey, 5-bay, L-plan structure designed in a Tudor cottage style. It is currently used as a house. The listing excludes the two rear extensions toward the southwest.

The building is constructed of blue squared rubble with snecked ashlar dressings. It features timber bracketed eaves with exposed rafter ends. The outer bays project and are gabled; the left bay is a single-storey former hall with a mullioned tripartite window topped by a Tudor hoodmould, above which is a carved inscription that reads '5 VBRH 1895', though it is now partly eroded. The former hall is accessed through a projecting porch with a shouldered doorcase and twin-leaf timber door. The entrance to the house is located to the right of the porch, featuring a rectangular fanlight and a single timber door.

In the house and armoury section on the right, there are primarily 3- and 4-pane timber sash and case windows. The hall section on the left has multi-pane glazing in the upper part and 3-pane glazing below, also in timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are corniced chimney stacks, some topped with yellow clay cans.

The interior, as observed in 2015, retains a well-preserved late 19th-century scheme. The former hall includes timber boarding up to dado height, a timber panelled entrance door with a moulded architrave, a late 19th-century chimneypiece, a plain cornice, and a central ventilator. In what was the drill instructor's house, there is a row of bells and a chimneypiece in the kitchen, along with timber panelled doors.