Lochdochart House Including Boundary Walls, Lochdochart, Crianlarich

Lochdochart House is a two-storey, three-bay classical house, likely built around 1825 and altered later. It may incorporate earlier fabric, though its appearance is primarily from the 1820s. The house has adjoining wings, creating a near-courtyard plan at the rear. The exterior is harled with margins, including angle margins, and has a piended roof. A traditional glazing scheme, with 12-pane timber sash and case windows, is retained. The simple classical style contrasts with the local gabled architecture. Lochdochart House is set within a contemporary designed landscape at the eastern end of Loch Iubhair and serves as the architectural focal point for the Loch Dochart Estate. It is a significant element of the area’s social history and a rare example of the fashionable classical style for the parish.

The principal, symmetrical elevation faces South-East and features a near-central, piended entrance porch. A two-bay, two-storey wing, one bay deep, adjoins the rear of the building to the left. The East elevation is four bays wide and two storeys high, with the bay to the left featuring bipartite windows. A single-storey washhouse and laundry, with a gable stack and pitched louvred ridge vent, forms part of the rear courtyard. Ridge stacks are present on the main house, and a gable stack is located at the north end of the East elevation.

The interior, renovated in the late Edwardian period, is simple and features six-panel timber doors, picture rails, and simple cornices. Deep skirting boards are also present. The stairwell balustrade was replaced in the mid-20th century with scrolled wrought iron, incorporating the holly and yew trees from the Christie family crest.

The house is constructed with harl and graded slate, and has predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows.

Boundary walls surround the house; they are dry stone to the West, rubble to the Northwest and Northeast, and a higher rubble wall with coping along the East.