Ancillary Buildings, Finnart

Finnart is an early to mid-19th century villa located in Kilmun, Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, notable as one of the area’s earlier villas and a good example of the period’s style. The house is a T-plan, symmetrical, three-bay, single-storey villa with a pitched roof and a large side verandah. It is deceptively large, including a substantial two-storey wing extending to the north rear. A house named 'Lamond’s Feu' appears on a map from 1839, suggesting a smaller, simpler building around 1830 was later upgraded in the 19th century.

The front of the villa features projecting square bays and wide dormers, which appear to be later 19th-century additions. The central, two-leaf timber door is flanked by cast iron Corinthian pilasters and reached by stone steps with cast iron balusters. Two wide tripartite dormers with slated cheeks and piended roofs are surmounted by pedimented centres with palmette finials. A round-headed central dormer, also with a palmette finial and scrolls to the side—all made of cast iron by Walter MacFarlane and Co.—sits between these. A steel and cast iron verandah, likely from the late 19th or early 20th century and now filled in to form a porch, extends to the east side of the house, constructed from components originally intended for a Walter MacFarlane and Co. bandstand, including columns, palmette drip frets, and railings.

The exterior is predominantly rubble with sandstone used for the bays. Dormers feature cast iron decoration. The roof is grey slate with stone chimneys and polygonal clay cans, and incorporates stone skews. Windows are timber sash and case with predominantly plate glass.

Several ancillary buildings and boundary walls are present on the site. A lodge and coach house, now semi-ruinous, stand closer to the road to the west; this is a two-storey, dormered structure with a gabled porch and a modern square-headed garage door on its south-facing wall. In the garden behind the house is an octagonal timber garden house with a lead pagoda roof, likely dating to the early 20th century. A small sundial sits directly in front of the villa, featuring a fluted column. In the southeast corner of the site are ruinous greenhouses and outbuildings. The entire property is enclosed by rubble boundary walls. Access to the interior was not possible during a resurvey in 2004.