7 Fullarton Courtyard, Fullarton Estate

A former stable courtyard designed by Robert Adam in 1792, converted to domestic use in the later 20th century. The building forms a near-square plan with a single pend entrance to the north and a castellated entrance arch to the south.

The courtyard is constructed in rubble sandstone with polished sandstone dressings and tooled rubble long-and-short detailing. The outer elevations to the south and west employ Castle Style architecture, while the outer elevations to the north and east are in plain vernacular style. Inner elevations use rubble sandstone blocks centred with polished sandstone dressings and long-and-short detailing, with whitewashed harl to remaining sections featuring painted margins. Decorative round-arched corbelling appears beneath parapets on the south and west ranges.

The south range's outer elevation features a central machicolated entrance gateway with a round arch flanked by circular-plan towers. Blind oval panels sit above a string course, and a stepped parapet contains a blank armorial panel. The flanking bays have narrow lights with continuous machicolated parapets, and the outer blocks feature squat blind openings above, bartizans to the angles, and round-arched windows within crowstepped gables. The inner elevation contains a large central entrance arch with regularly spaced round-arched flight-holes above the upper cill, which formerly accessed a dovecote. Various boarded timber and small-pane doors and tripartite and bipartite windows are distributed asymmetrically, with single and bipartite dormers breaking the eaves.

The west range's outer elevation is two storeys in part, featuring a three-bay centrepiece recessed at the centre with a bipartite window at ground level within a round-arched panel and a single window at first floor, topped by a machicolated parapet. Advanced flanking bays contain single windows in round-arched panels at both floors with machicolated parapets and round-arched windows in crowstepped gables; bartizans sit at the angles. Single-storey three-bay wings are recessed to left and right with regularly spaced narrow lights and machicolated parapets. Single advanced bays to the outer left and right feature large round-arched windows, machicolated parapets, bartizans, and round-arched openings in crowstepped gables. The inner elevation comprises a three-bay central rubble block with two boarded timber doors recessed at the centre and a single window at first floor, flanked by single windows at both floors. Additional bays contain boarded timber doors with flanking bipartite windows and single dormers.

The north range's outer elevation features an off-centre pend entry with bipartite windows and dormers. Single doors and windows are irregularly distributed at both floors. The inner elevation contains a central five-bay rubble block with a boarded timber door centred at ground level and a single dormer above, with additional doors, windows, and dormers distributed asymmetrically across the remaining bays.

The east range's outer elevation is two storeys in part, comprising a central five-bay block at ground level with a small-pane door centred at ground with flanking single windows and a small-pane door in an outer bay, above which sit two bipartite windows. A single-storey with attic four-bay range to the outer right contains single doors in outer bays and two centred bipartite windows at ground, with regularly spaced single dormers breaking the eaves. An offset four-bay single-storey range and a three-bay range to the outer left each contain single doors and windows with single or piended dormers. The inner elevation features a four-bay central rubble block with two small-pane doors centred at ground, bipartite windows to the outer left and right, and single dormers, complemented by flanking three-bay ranges with similar door and window distributions.

Glazing is predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case; 9-pane timber pivot glazing is used for smaller openings, and small-pane glazing for large round-arched openings. Some rooflights are present. The roof is covered in grey slate with replacement rainwater goods. Predominantly cat-slide dormers break the eaves throughout. All doors are boarded timber or small-pane types.

The interiors were not inspected in 1997 and have been completely rebuilt behind the elevations.

A square-plan sandstone sundial on a balustered plinth stands to the north of the courtyard. It features decorative relief carving, a corniced table, and a metal gnomon.