Including Boundary Walls And Gatepiers, Blair Athol

Blair Athol is a well-preserved mid-19th century villa, built around 1860. Although its design is relatively conventional, it features interesting details such as pilastered windows and quatrefoil-pierced parapets. This 3-bay, 1½-storey rectangular house has a gabled half-dormer and ground-floor canted bays, contributing significantly to the collection of buildings along the shore.

The front elevation is symmetrical, with a central timber double door topped by a hood-mould. Flanking the door are the canted bays, which also feature quatrefoil-pierced stone parapets and pilastered mullions. The upper floor has three gabletted round-arched windows, with the central window being slightly lower. Each side elevation has two tall single windows on the ground floor. The rear of the house includes two half-dormers and a single-storey projection. Historical maps indicate that a small projection on the south side of the rear wall was replaced by two parallel projections by 1898. Later, the space between these two pitch-roofed projections was filled in with a flat-roofed block.

Inside, the villa retains several original features, including decorative plasterwork cornices and joinery. The materials used include painted ashlar on the front elevation, with rubble on the sides and rear. The roof is covered with graded grey slate, featuring stone stacks and polygonal clay cans, while the rear projection has concrete tiles. The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass at the front and lying-pane at the rear.

To the southwest of the house is a rectangular-plan, two-storey rubble coach house. While many features, including doors and windows, remain on its side elevation, a low garage has been added to the front. The property is enclosed by rubble boundary walls, and square-plan gatepiers topped with decorative pyramidal capstones.