Croft-Na-Coille, Braes Road, New Rattray

Croft-Na-Coille is a late 19th century, two-storey, two-bay gabled house located on Braes Road in New Rattray. The house features a red brick construction with mock half-timbering and a jettied first floor. Some of the windows have segmental heads with brick voussoirs, and there are stone mullions present.

On the south elevation, there is a bay to the left of the center that includes a segmental-headed tripartite window on the ground floor, with a bipartite window that breaks the eaves into a dormer gablet above. To the right, there is a gabled bay with a rectangular four-part window at ground level and a tripartite window above.

The east elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a bay to the right of center featuring a small window and a modern part-glazed timber door next to a later lean-to porch. There is a single window in the bay to the left and two bipartite windows that lead to dormer gablets on the first floor.

On the west elevation facing Forebank Road, there is a small bipartite window at the center of each floor, with the first-floor window abutting the eaves. To the left, there is a bay with a segmental-headed tripartite window on the ground floor and a bipartite window in the gablehead above. A small lean-to timber addition is located in the bay to the right at ground level, with a bipartite window in the gablehead above.

The north elevation features a gabled bay to the left of center with a tripartite window leading to the original lean-to porch at ground level, a bipartite window on the return to the left, and a timber door with an adjacent light on the return to the right. There is also a tripartite window on the first floor and a blank bay to the right.

The house has a four-light glazing pattern over plate glass glazing in the timber windows at the north porch, while PVCu glazing has been used elsewhere, following the original patterns of four- and six-light transomed glazing. The roof is covered with red tiles and decorative terracotta ridge tiles, and there are red brick Shavian stacks with terracotta cans. The eaves overhang with plain bargeboarding, and cast-iron downpipes feature decorative rainwater hoppers.

Inside, the house boasts deeply-moulded plasterwork cornices, timber fire surrounds—including one in the principal bedroom with a carved frieze—panelled timber architraved doors, and a timber-balustered dog-leg staircase with finialled newel posts.

The property is enclosed by semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls and squat-coped rubble round gatepiers, which support a hooped ironwork gate.