Dunalastair

Dunalastair is a two-storey Baronial mansion dated 1852 and designed by Andrew Heiton and Son. It is square in plan, with a three-stage circular entrance tower, though the roof of the tower collapsed in 1996. The exterior is constructed of rubble stone with ashlar dressings featuring roll-moulded surrounds. A dividing string course and moulded eaves course are also present.

The south (principal) elevation is symmetrical. A prominent, engaged entrance tower is centrally positioned; it features a roll-moulded, segmentally arched doorway with a keystone, set within a pilaster-flanked door surround. Above the doorway is a frieze of panelled pilasters, and further above is a carved armorial set in a square panel that curves upwards at its centre, flanked by obelisks on panelled dies. Narrow windows are found in the second stage of the tower. The third stage has shield panels in oval surrounds, with pedimented windows breaking the eaves, supported by a billeted corbel course. Leaded ball finials topped the conical roof, along with a decorative wrought-iron finial. Flanking the tower are two regularly fenestrated bays, with steeply pedimented dormerheads above the ground floor windows. The outer bays are crowstepped and advanced, with rounded corners at ground level. These corners are corbelled to square at the first floor, with canted windows advanced to the centre and similarly corbelled to the upper stage and gablehead. The first-floor windows feature strapworked carving above a mutuled cornice. The gableheads incorporate narrow lights with round arches. Clustered diamond stacks rise from the corners of the bays, corbelled towards the entrance, with circular pepperpot bartizans to the outer corners, also corbelled.

The east elevation features a broad canted bay at the centre, bearing an ashlar-bracketed balcony to bipartite French windows at first floor level. A decorative stone balustrade and broken pediments sit above the openings, with a mutuled cornice below. An arrowslit is cradled within the crowstepped gablehead. A flank to the left features a wallhead stack. A further advanced bay is positioned to the outer right, with a first-floor window set within a corbelled apron, and a bartizan nestling in the re-entrant angle.

The glazing has been removed. Evidence suggests the presence of some internal panelled shutters. The roof is now collapsed, formerly covered in grey slates. Decorative billeted coping tops the diamond stacks. Wrought-iron finials are present at gableheads and on conical roofs. The interior was not inspected in 1996.