Craig Gowan Including Outbuilding, Easter Balmoral

Craig Gowan is a house probably designed by William Smith around 1870, with later alterations in the 19th century. It is a two-storey, L-shaped gabled house with a first-floor breaking the eaves, and a courtyard to the rear formed by a single-storey stable block abutting at a right angle. The house has Tudor detailing.

The house is constructed of squared and coursed granite, now with harl-pointing, and features stugged ashlar dressings, a base course, and gabled dormerheads. The northeast elevation has three bays, with a granite porch at the centre, set into the re-entrant angle, and with an advanced bay to the right. The porch has a Tudor-arched doorway, a panelled door with a panelled fanlight, an entablature, and decorative cast-iron brattishing; a window is set to the return to the left. A dormerheaded window is above. A broad, advanced bay to the right has a lead-roofed canted window at ground level and a first-floor window in a gablehead, topped by a ball finial. A bay to the left is gabled with a full-height canted window, a dividing cornice, stepped coping, and a roll finial.

The northwest elevation has four bays, with the two centre bays recessed, each containing a window at ground level and dormerheaded windows on the first floor. An outer bay to the left is broad and slightly advanced, with three grouped windows to each floor (the outermost window on the left is blind). A gabled bay is advanced to the outer right, with a window to each floor.

The southeast elevation reveals a courtyard. A recessed service wing is to the left, with a gable to the outer left and a rear door to the right. An advanced gable is centred, with a ground floor window to the left, a blinded window above, and flanking bays. A recessed bay returns from the principal elevation to the right, with a raised chimneybreast, a window, and blind windows. Two timber porch additions are set to the rear of the principal wing.

The stables are a gabled, single-storey block with a hayloft, running northwest-southeast. They have two broad doorways to the courtyard and a small window; there is a window and hayloft opening to the southeast gable. A timber extension runs at a right angle to the southwest at the rear.

The windows are 4-pane timber sash and case windows. The roofs are covered in grey slate, with gabled coped skewes, bracketted skewputts, and kneelers. There are wallhead, gablehead, and ridge stacks, and cast-iron rooflights to the stables.

To the south is a single-storey, rectangular-plan outbuilding constructed of slatted timber with a granite base course. The north elevation has a pair of sliding, two-leaf, boarded timber doors. Other elevations have boarded timber doors, one partially glazed. A 10-pane timber window is positioned far to the left, with a top hopper. A timber lean-to is attached to the west, and the roof is covered in grey slate.