Including Steading And Game Larder, Baile-Na-Coille, Balmoral Castle

This is a gabled, two-storey house, likely built around 1877 by William Smith, with subsequent additions and alterations by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson between 1904 and 1905, and further changes in 1923-4. It is rectangular in shape, with projecting service bays that enclose a small courtyard to the rear, and is constructed in a Germanic style.

The exterior is of stugged, squared granite with a base course, rock-faced quoins and polished margins. A corbelled course divides the ground and first floors, creating the appearance of a jettied first floor. The building features sweeping eaves to the gabled dormerheads, and broad gables with a shallow pitch. Windows are multi-light with timber mullions and transoms.

The northeast elevation has three bays. A stone porch projects from the centre, featuring a pointed-arch doorway with a panelled door, a cornice, and a corniced parapet with decorative brattishing. A dormerhead is positioned above the first-floor window behind the porch. To the left is a bay with a tripartite window at ground level and a dormerheaded window above. A broad gabled bay is advanced to the outer right, with a tripartite window at ground level and a bipartite window above.

The northwest elevation is characterized by an advanced gabled bay off-centre to the left, with two narrow windows at ground level and a bipartite window at the first floor, flanked by narrow windows. An outer bay to the left has a projecting, corniced window (dating from 1902) at ground level with a stone mullioned bipartite window facing outwards, and single windows to the returns. A dormerheaded cross window sits above. To the right are outer bays with a first-floor cross dormerheaded window and a harled lean-to abutting a blank outer wall.

The southeast elevation was originally symmetrical. Narrow windows are centrally positioned, flanked either side by cross windows at ground level and as dormerheaded windows above. Broad, slightly advanced, outer gabled bays are present; to the left, a tripartite window is at ground level, with a corbelled chimneybreast raised from the first floor at the centre, dividing two narrow windows. This design is mirrored on the outer left, but is now occupied by a projecting window (dating from 1902) in place of the original tripartite, matching the detail of the opposing elevation.

The southwest elevation features a gabled end of a short wing on the left, with a small window at ground level and a bipartite window at the first floor. The courtyard recess at the centre has a window orielled across the left re-entrant angle at the first floor, with a bipartite and a small window. A door is present in the opposing short wing, panelled with a two-pane fanlight, and the first floor is jettied on a cavetto corbel course. The courtyard is partly enclosed by stone screen walls with rounded coping, which continue from the wallplane.

The windows are sash and case, with large panes. Cusped bargeboards are found on the swept dormerheads, while pendant finialled timber brackets support the eaves and scroll-flanked kingposts are present on the broader gables. The roof is covered in grey slates, with coped stone stacks to the gableheads and ridge.

To the southwest of the house is a single-storey and loft, L-plan steading constructed of stugged, coursed granite. It has a pair of two-leaf boarded timber sliding doors to the northeast elevation and other timber boarded doors. A timber external stair leads to a boarded timber loft door on the southeast side. A piend-roofed dormer is present on the northwest side. The steading has predominantly four-pane timber sash and case windows, grey slates and some rooflights, with raised skews and plain skew putts.

A small, square-plan timber game larder with vertical battens, pyramidal roof and ball finial is located to the southwest of the main house.