Laundry, Alvie Lodge

Alvie Lodge is a mid-19th century shooting lodge that was significantly enlarged and altered in the early 20th century into a large asymmetrical mansion. The main house follows an H-plan, with a rectangular main block and a T-plan service wing to the rear (north) that incorporates the former servants' hall, servants' accommodation and kitchen.

The building is rendered in cement with dressed stone openings, with a repaired harled section visible on the centre bays of the south elevation. The main house is roofed in grey stone slates, with grey slate also covering the service wings. The dominant south garden elevation features two large advanced gables to the penultimate bays, with a smaller gable set within the re-entrant angle of the left gable. The east elevation is nearly symmetrical, presenting a 2-storey, 3-bay main house to the left with slightly advanced gables to the outer bays and a modest main entrance set to the right within one of these gables. The setback servants' wing extends to the right, terminating in an advanced former servants' hall and accommodation block. The rear north elevation is 2-storey with a full-height basement servants' range; a central setback section contains forestairs running to a door at first-floor level, with slightly advanced wings to both left and right, the right-hand wing featuring a number of doors at basement level. The west elevation displays a large gable to the main house with a recessed section, while the servants' wing sets back and terminates with an advanced former kitchen.

Windows display considerable variety. Large tripartite windows light the outer gables of the south elevation and are centred on the east elevation of the main house. Paired mullioned timber casements are set within gables on the south and east elevations. Breaking-eaves flat-headed dormer windows appear at first-floor level on the former kitchen. The majority of windows throughout the house are timber 12-pane sash and case windows.

The interior contains an impressive collection of large principal ground-floor rooms arranged primarily to the south of the house. These rooms feature exposed oak timber doors and windows, parquet flooring, decorative stone and timber mantelpieces, and simple cornices throughout; the dining room's cornice displays grapevine detailing. The dining room to the west contains an unusual large plate glass window fitted with a concealed mechanism allowing the glass pane to be lowered several inches, designed to disperse cigar smoke after dinner. A carved oak main stair and back stair serve the upper floors. The former kitchen retains some original decorative tiles. Bedrooms at first and attic floors include a number at first-floor level with ensuite bathrooms containing original 1920s fittings.

The Estate Office, formerly a laundry, is a late-19th century T-shaped structure of single storey and loft construction, timber-boarded and slate-roofed, set to the north of the house. It features 4-pane timber sash and case windows, a breaking-eaves gabled door to the attic at the principal north-west elevation, and gabled vents to the main roof space. An adjacent large former drying area to the north-east retains concrete posts for washing lines.

The Motor House is an earlier 20th century single-storey structure with basement and loft, built as a rectangular-plan motor house, probably originally constructed as a stable and subsequently converted for motor cars. It is set close to the former laundry and is rendered with dressed stone openings and an ashlar wallhead stack to the south-east. The roof is piended grey slate with rooflights and a central decorative timber lantern crowned by a weathercock. Three large moulded timber openings to the principal south-west elevation retain retractable timber doors. The interior features an exposed timber lining, a car-pit, and original fittings.