Faskally House

Faskally House is a large Scots-Tudor style house largely dating from 1831, designed by William Burn, with extensions added in 1924. It is two storeys and an attic in height, with five bays and slender, conical-roofed towers featuring crowsteps. The house is constructed of white sandstone with buff micaceous quartz dressings, with rubble to the rear. A Tudor-arch doorcase is present.

The south elevation is the principal facade, featuring a slightly advanced, crowstepped entrance gable at the centre. This gable contains a moulded doorpiece beneath a hoodmould incorporating a large datestone, a groin-vaulted porch with decorative bosses, and a two-leaf, part-glazed timber door. A bipartite window sits above the doorpiece on the first floor. A slender, two-stage tower rises to the right, with a narrow round-headed light to each floor, including the attic, and a single window in the re-entrant angle. To the left, an M-gable is present with a broad five-light canted window at ground level and a hoodmoulded tripartite window above. A later single light is situated immediately to the left, with a blind shield positioned above. The outer left bay features a rectangular four-light window to the ground floor and two widely spaced windows to the first floor, with the window to the left being blinded and breaking the eaves. The bays to the right are recessed. All dormerheads and gableheads incorporate blind arrowslits.

The west elevation is dominated by full-height canted five-light windows to each floor in a gabled bay to the right, and a bipartite window to each floor in a gabled bay to the left. A recessed centre bay has a window to each floor, with a dormerhead above the first-floor window. A slender tower, similar to that on the south elevation, is located in the re-entrant to the left. A single-storey link connects to the left, accompanied by a projecting, crowstepped billiard room beyond, with a canted transomed French door and flanking window to the south.

The east elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a projecting wing to the right containing a stair tower and crowstepped gables.

The north elevation incorporates single-storey offices forming a small courtyard to the left, and lower two-storey offices to the right, with the face of the main block recessed behind.

The courtyard has been altered to the south, but retains a canopy supported by cast-iron columns to the north and east.

Most windows are timber sash and case with 4-, 8- and 12-pane glazing patterns. The roof is covered in graded grey slates, with coped grouped and single stacks, some incorporating cans. Ashlar-coped skewes feature moulded skewputts. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative fixings and rainwater hoppers are also present.

The interior retains good detail, including boarded soffits and dadoes. Strapwork ceilings are found in three ground floor rooms, two of which have finely carved fire surrounds and overmantels. Panelled outer and inner halls include decorative cast-iron radiators, and a cantilevered dog-leg staircase leading to a first-floor corridor with a coombed ceiling. The billiard room features decorative plasterwork frieze and a billiard table by Morrison & Co of Edinburgh.

Two pairs of pyramidally-coped, square-section ashlar gatepiers stand at the entrance.