Croughly

This is a largely Later 18th century facing house, originally with a single storey and a dormerless attic, arranged in three bays with a central doorway. Wings were added to the rear, forming a U-shaped courtyard. In the early 19th century, a further two-storey, three-bay house was built onto the north gable of the original building. The entire structure is harled with stone margins.

The early 19th century house has a central doorway on its south elevation, with a window above, and a window in the left bay on both the ground and first floors. The north elevation displays symmetrical fenestration with three large windows on both the ground and first floors. The south gable features two windows on each floor, with one blind window on each level. Most of the original 12-pane windows remain.

The older portion of the house has a pair of pigeon flight holes on each east gable, as well as end stacks and a Tomintoul slate roof, which is piended on the early 19th century wing.

Inside the original three-bay house, the right-hand (south) room contains panelled box beds and original panelled doors. A small central staircase is framed by narrow wooden reeded pilasters and a segmental headed arch. The floors are of Tomintoul stone flags, and original doorpieces are present in the early 19th century section.

A coped rubble-walled garden is present, with a central square rubble-walled gatepiers.

The house has historical significance as the home of the Gordons of Croughly, originally known as the Laggan, with an earlier Croughly located further upstream on the Conglass Water. James Gordon of Croughly built part of the house after his marriage in 1760. Robert Gordon (1780-1828) was the last to reside in the older house, and enlarged it around 1812. John Gordon, Robert’s son, born in 1818 and died in 1843, was the last of the line to live at Croughly. Local records describe Croughly as one of four farms in the parish with "commodious and substantial" dwelling houses and steadings built within the preceding twenty years.