Carnegal, Wester Kinnaird, Moulin

Carnegal is a villa, likely dating from 1879, with later 19th-century extensions, situated in Moulin, Wester Kinnaird. It is a two-storey building with a three-bay main block and prominent, multi-stage towers. The exterior is constructed of rock-faced squared rubble with rock-faced and dressed ashlar margins, incorporating squared and snecked coursed rubble. Round-headed tower windows and lucarnes are present, alongside stone mullions.

The main, southwest-facing elevation features a broad gabled bay to the left of centre, which has a canted tripartite window at ground level. Above this, a moulded blocking course gives way to a bipartite window. Recessed bays to the right feature two windows on each floor. The window in the outer right-hand ground-floor bay has been converted into a doorway with a timber conservatory. Dormerheaded windows are located on the first floor of the recessed bays.

The southeast-facing (entrance) elevation centres on an entrance tower. To the right of the tower are two tall margined stair windows, followed by a set-back bay containing a panelled timber door with a plate glass fanlight and flanking lights. A window is located on the first floor above the door. A gabled bay extends to the outer left, punctuated by a full-height stepped chimney breast projecting through the gablehead. Later, regularly-fenestrated bays are situated to the outer right.

The entrance tower has a pitch-roofed porch with rustic poles and decorative braces. A roll-moulded, shouldered doorway leads to a boarded timber door with decorative hinges on the northeast side, and a window on the southeast side. Additional windows are found on both elevations of the second stage, with round-headed bipartites on the third stage progressing to a bellcast roof. Cast-iron weathervane, finialled lucarnes to the southeast, northeast and northwest, and a shouldered stack to the southeast are also incorporated.

The northwest elevation presents four bays, with a round tower centrally placed featuring three windows on each floor. A bay to the right contains a ground-floor window in the outer right position and a further window high up in a small gablehead. An advanced gable in the bay to the left has a window on each floor, a ground-floor door, and lower-level bay with a further door to the outer left.

The northeast-facing (rear) elevation showcases extensions, including projecting office ranges and a dormerheaded window in the centre.

The building features timber sash and case windows with a four-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered in grey slates, complemented by coped ashlar stacks with cans, some of which are polygonal. Overhanging eaves and bargeboarding are present, incorporating kingposts.

The interior retains a good decorative scheme, featuring decorative plasterwork cornicing, architraved doors, a dado rail, brass sash lifts, panelled shutters and cast-iron radiators. A part-glazed screen door with flanking lights and fanlights is also present. A cantilevered dog-leg staircase boasts barley twist balusters, ball-finialled newels, and pendant finials. The principal ground floor rooms have marble fire surrounds, the room to the west featuring a keystoned white marble fireplace with a cast-iron horseshoe grate, and the room to the east featuring a black marble fireplace and moulded consoles. The upper stair window has coloured margins.

An ancillary single-storey rubble and slate former laundry building (now converted to a dwelling) is located nearby. This features a square window below a voussoired roundel with a blind shield in the gable to the southwest, and a door with three windows to the right and a small square window to the left, on the southeast elevation.

Pyramidally-coped, square-section ashlar gatepiers define the entrance, accompanied by coped rubble boundary walls.