Glentruim House

Glentruim House is a long, asymmetrical, two-storey gabled house with a raised basement, built between 1835 and 1840, with subsequent additions in 1870-1871 by Alexander Ross of Inverness and Alexander Mackenzie of Kingussie, and further work in 1901. It sits on a sloping site facing east, with the main entrance located at the rear, to the west.

The house is constructed of tooled grey granite ashlar, with granite dressings and some pinning. The west entrance front is irregular in layout, consisting of seven bays with gables. A crenellated porch was added in the late 19th century near the centre. To the left of the porch are a two-bay dining room and a garden front tower, both added in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The east garden front is similarly irregular. A single-storey canted bay window sits near the centre, featuring a decorative corbelled balustrade and French windows, which are accessed via a late 19th-century cast-iron staircase with ornate balusters, replacing earlier wooden steps. A three-storey square tower is also located near the centre of the east front, with a corbelled and crenellated wallhead rising to a small square cap tower, also crenellated. Some first-floor windows rise through the wallhead, set within crowstepped gablets. The windows feature varied glazing, and the building has crowstepped gables, some with tall corbelled octagonal coped stacks, and coped ridge stacks. The roof is slate. Crenellated walls screen a service court to the north, while a lean-to greenhouse is located at the south gable.

Inside, a cantilevered staircase rises from the inner stair hall, featuring delicate cast-iron balusters and a polished wood handrail. The drawing room has a decorative plaster frieze and ceiling roundel, with a white marble chimney piece featuring carved relief images of Clan Chattan and MacPherson crests.

Glentruim House was built by Major Evan MacPherson, who purchased the land from the Duke of Gordon in the mid-1830s. The house was described as "lately built" in 1839. Photographs of the house, taken before the entrance porch was added and when wooden steps served the French windows, are in the possession of the current owner.