Lonach Hall

1845 (dated) villa, with later extensions, refurbished 2003, and 1896 hall with notable interior. 2 buildings combined to serve Lonach Society. 2-storey, 3-bay gabled house, extended to rear, with overhanging eaves and open pedimented gables and dormerheads. Rubble, squared for dressings with harl pointing, and pointed harl to side and rear.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: symmetrical entrance elevation to S with advanced gabled bay to centre with tall doorway below shield panel inscribed 1845, and arrowslit in gablehead. 1st floor windows breaking eaves into dormerheads.

Replacement 12-lying-pane glazing patterns to timber sash and case windows in timber mullioned bipartites at ground; timber 4-pane sash and case to 1st floor. Grey slate roofs. Profiled bargeboarding to enclosed eaves. Coped ashlar stacks with cans.

INTERIOR: includes dog-leg staircase with metal balusters bearing portrait profiles of men in bonnets.

HALL: 1896. Corrugated-iron, semicircular barrel-vaulted tall single storey hall with timber-framing, on rubble base course with battered ashlar coping. Timber mullions and transoms.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: semicircular section disguised with Dutch gable end. Door to end with box canopy and 4-light fanlight. 4-light windows flanking.

Timber glazing patterns with 2-pane lower sections and multi-pane upper sections. Bowed corrugated roof. Timber bargeboarding.

INTERIOR: timber lined boarded interior and barrel-vaulted roof. Recessed minstrels' gallery to W side, framed with fluted pilasters and depressed-arch architrave, with raised platform (boarded). Further raised platform (panelled) to N end. Main entrance with part-glazed and chevron boarded 2-leaf doors, with coloured glass and lead astragals to upper panels.