Inchdowrie House With Sunken Garden, Glen Clova

Inchdowrie House is a country house of 1914, built in the Arts and Crafts style. It is arranged in a Z-shape, with multiple gables, a circular turret, crowstepped gables, and irregular window placement, all featuring distinctive bull-faced red sandstone dressings. The exterior is white-painted roughcast harl with red sandstone dressings, showcasing uneven long and short quoins, tabbed window margins, and sandstone crowsteps.

The principal (South-East and South-West) elevations comprise two roughly rectangular blocks, with an advanced section to the right and the main entrance and turret forming a re-entrant angle. A single-storey garage or coach house adjoins the left-hand block at the southern corner. The front door is timber-panelled, set within a recessed porch with a round-arched, pilastered entrance in an irregularly fenestrated, piend-roofed entrance block, accessible by six steps to the porch and two steps to the door. A conical-roofed turret adjoins the porch to the right. A two-bay, South-East-facing block is situated to the north-east of the turret, featuring an advanced gable to the left and a canted bay window to the right. To the south-west of the entrance, a two-bay section has three-light windows and a bipartite, gabled dormer with a ball finial. The South-East elevation of this block is irregularly fenestrated and roughly two-bay, with a gable above the right-hand bay. The garage has two depressed-arch entrances with timber-panelled doors on its South-West elevation.

The North-East (garden) elevation features a gabled bay to the left with a tripartite stone-mullioned window and glazed door to the ground floor, and an irregularly fenestrated, piend-roofed bay with a wallhead stack to the right.

The North-West (rear) elevation has a long, roughly five-bay range to the left, with a gabled dormer to the left bay. The second bay from the left is gabled with a two-storey canted window, while tripartite windows are placed to the right. An advanced, piend-roofed bay to the right has five steps leading to a timber-boarded back door on the return. A gabled garage is advanced to the outer right.

The windows are timber casements with leaded lights and timber mullions. Stacks are rendered with roll-moulded cornices and black clay cans. The roof is covered with stone slates, and rainwater goods are made of cast iron.

To the South-East of the house is a rectangular, sunken rose garden, which is composed of an inner and outer terrace with low, coped retaining walls. Central flights of two steps lead to each side. A coped, random rubble garden wall extends from the North-West elevation of the house, featuring large circular 'windows'.