The Doune

The Doune is a mansion that was built in several stages between the late 17th century and the mid 19th century. The principal block, facing south, was constructed between 1780 and 1813 and is two storeys high with five bays. It features granite rubble with ashlar granite dressings, rusticated quoins, and long/short detailing. The main facade includes a central door flanked by sidelights, with rusticated ashlar dressings. Above the door is a Venetian window, and to the left is a three-window bowed bay that rises to full height. There is also a single off-centre piended dormer. The east gable has a regular single bay return with ground and first floor windows, each displaying long/short rustication and a keystoned lintel on the ground floor. A band course runs along the building, topped by a piended slate roof with ashlar granite modillioned eaves.

At the rear, there is an earlier house from the late 17th to early 18th century, which is three storeys high and has seven bays, consisting of at least two builds that were heightened to full three storeys in the mid 19th century. This section is constructed of rubble with tooled ashlar dressings, featuring an off-centre door and narrow windows on the first and second floors. The gables are crowstepped, and there are end and ridge coped stacks. A datestone from 1598 has been re-set in this part of the building.

Throughout the mansion, there are 12-pane sash windows. A projecting bowed stairwell was added in 1985 to link the main blocks. Inside, there are some fine late 18th and early 19th century chimneypieces, along with remnants of late 18th century plaster friezes.