Including Courtyard Wall And Outbuildings, Black Clauchrie House, Barrhill

Black Clauchrie House is an Arts and Crafts style house designed by James K Hunter between 1898 and 1901. It is mainly two-storey with an attic and features an asymmetric design with crow-stepped gables. The house includes a gabled ballroom on the south side and is situated on a sloping site in an isolated moorland setting. There is a previous service wing to the northeast. The exterior is finished in white painted harl with sloping cills and red sandstone margins around the ballroom. A large, projecting conservatory is located on the west elevation, while the south elevation of the ballroom features a central canted bow window.

The entrance on the east elevation has off-centre steps leading to a recessed balustrade, with a timber entrance door set in a re-entrant angle to the right. This door is framed by a red sandstone architrave topped with a semi-circular pediment, and there is a tripartite fanlight with stained glass above it. The remains of a decorative cast iron loggia, which is in poor condition, can be found on the south and west elevations of the ballroom.

The house has a variety of multi-pane, predominantly timber sash and case windows, grey slate roofing, gable stacks, and decorative cast iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the house features a fine Arts and Crafts interior with many intact original features in the principal rooms. The ground floor and stairwell are adorned with three-quarter height timber panelling. The timber stair has plain balusters and a banister, and some rooms have beamed ceilings, including the ballroom. There are several decorative fire surrounds, one made of decorative metal and others tiled. The doors are four and six panel timber. The ballroom includes a minstrels' gallery and an initialled stone inglenook fireplace with a decorative metal inset.

Adjoining the house is a square-plan courtyard to the northeast, enclosed by a harled and coped wall with ball finials forming the south elevation. A two-storey cottage adjoins the main house to the north, forming the west elevation of the courtyard. There are also further single-storey outbuildings to the east and north, including a piended roofed former game larder.