Auchenlarich

Auchenlarich

A farmhouse dating from possibly the early 19th century in L-plan, substantially remodelled and given Baronial styling during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with datestones indicating work in 1894 and 1924. The building is rendered in painted harl with red sandstone margins and dressings.

The main house is a 2-storey, 5-bay structure of rectangular plan with villa proportions and Baronial details. It features a base course, crowstepped gables, and gabled dormerheads. The south elevation, which serves as the entrance front, presents a varied composition: a broad bay is advanced to the outer left, a lower 3-bay block occupies the centre, and a round tower bay rises to the outer right. An off-centre stugged red sandstone porch sits to the right of centre, with pier buttresses and a parapet carrying a raised plaque at its centre inscribed with incised script reading "GE=T 1894". The porch has studded wooden doors. Flanking bipartite windows at ground level flank the porch, with a corbelled course to the right. Three gabled dormerheads are symmetrically disposed at first-floor level, with a small window to the left and a large velux rooflight. The round tower clasps the outer right corner, displaying a billeted corbel course rising to a corbelled parapet, with windows at both ground and first-floor levels. The broad bay to the outer left contains tripartite windows at both ground and first-floor levels, symmetrically arranged, with those on the upper floor smaller in scale. A parapet with crowstepped gable breaks the eaves at the centre of this bay.

The west elevation features a billeted corbel course and 3 asymmetrically disposed bays. A 3-stage, crenellated square tower bay occupies the outer left, with bipartite windows decreasing in size from ground to upper floor. A jettied chimney breast stands at the centre, carrying a red sandstone plaque inscribed with a datestone reading "GE=T and JE=T, 1929". Crowstepped gable buttressing rises to the right, with a French door at ground level at the outer right and a window above.

The east elevation displays a round tower to the outer left and a half-gabled bay to the right, featuring a small window at ground level and bipartite windows above, with a single window in the gablehead. A raised coped pedestal with ball finial stands on this elevation. A small round-headed red sandstone niche bridges the angle between the tower and the adjoining bay. A square, parapetted tower bay advances to the outer right with a tripartite window at ground level, and a later lean-to block extends the elevation further to the outer right.

The north elevation comprises a square tower bay slightly advanced to the outer right, with a bipartite window at ground level to the left and two windows at first-floor level to the centre and left. A blind window marks the centre, flanked by symmetrically disposed windows. A lower block occupies the centre, with a door positioned right of centre, bipartite windows at ground level to the right, and tripartite windows above. A transomed and mullioned stair window stands to the left, alongside a large gabled tripartite dormer. A crowstepped gabled bay extends to the left with a small window in the gablehead to the right and an apex stack. Later single-storey lean-to blocks have been added at ground level, as has a modern large gabled tripartite dormer.

Windows throughout the house consist of 6-pane top-hopper over plate glass casement windows; 6-pane over 2-pane timber plate glass sash and case windows; and leaded and multi-paned windows. The roof is finished in grey slate with lead flashings, coped apex stacks bearing circular cans, and modern velux rooflights.

The interior was not seen at the time of survey in 1995.

The gate piers flanking the property entrance are of droved sandstone with weathered red sandstone bases and caps. A rubble sundial stands in the garden.

The stable is a rectangular-plan, 2-storey block with crowstepped gables, positioned directly north of the house. The front gable features stone steps leading to a door at the centre, flanked by windows, with that to the right being small. Three segmental arches mark the left return. Two dormerhead windows appear on the right return, and a jettied shouldered stack rises on the west gable. A 6-pane over 9-pane timber sash and case window stands at the outer right. The stable is finished with 12-pane timber sash and case windows and a plate glass window, a grey slate roof with lead flashing on the crowsteps, and a velux rooflight.