Inchdowrie House With Sunken Garden, Glen Clova

1. 2-storey, Z-plan, Multi-gabled Arts and Crafts country house with circular turret, crowstepped gables, irregular fenestration and distinctive bull-faced red sandstone dressings. White-painted roughcast harl with red sandstone dressings. Uneven long and short quoins; tabbed window margins; sandstone crowsteps.

SE AND SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATIONS: stepped elevation of basically 2 roughly-rectangular blocks with advanced section to right, and principal entrance and turret in re-entrant angle; single-storey garage or coach house adjoining left-hand block at S corner. Timber panelled front door set in recessed porch with round-arched pilastered entrance in irregularly fenestrated piend-roofed entrance block; 6 steps to porch and 2 steps to door; conical-roofed turret adjoining to right. 2-bay, SE-facing block to NE of turret with advanced gable to left and canted bay window to right. 2-bay section to SW of entrance with 3-light windows to right bay and bipartite gabled dormer to left with ball finial; roughly 2-bay irregularly fenestrated SE elevation of this block with gable to right-hand bay. 2 depressed-arch entrances with timber-panelled doors to SW elevation of garage.

NE (GARDEN) ELEVATION: gabled bay to left with tripartite stone-mullioned window to ground with glazed door to central section; irregularly fenestrated piend-roofed bay to right with wallhead stack.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: long roughly 5-bay range to left: gabled dormer to left bay; 2nd bay from left gabled with 2-storey canted window; tripartite windows to right. Advanced piend-roofed bay to right with 5 steps to timber boarded back door on left return. Gabled garage advanced to outer right.

Timber casements with leaded lights and timber mullions. Rendered stacks with roll-moulded cornices and black clay cans. Stone slates. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

SUNKEN GARDEN AND GARDEN WALL: rectangular sunken rose garden to SE of house composed of inner and outer terrace with low coped retaining walls; central flights of 2 steps to each side. Coped random rubble garden wall extending from NW elevation of house with large circular 'windows'.