Ancillary Structures

Loch Lomond And Trossachs National Park Planning Authority

Peddie and Kinnear, monogrammed and dated 1859. 2-storey, multi-gabled villa with deep eaves, finialed gables, canted bay windows to S (front), substantial gabled porch to NE corner and single storey service wing to W. This is a substantial, well-designed and little-altered villa built for the MacDonald family by the well-regarded firm of architects, Peddie and Kinnear. The monogram PK on the N face of the chimney over the porch refers to the architects; another, JM gives the initials of the original owner, John MacDonald. The house is very prominently sited on the North Shore of Loch Voil.

The house is composed of 3 distinct blocks, diminishing in height to the W. Every block has one or more gables on each elevation and the fenestration is regularly arranged in bays. The principal elevation faces S and the main entrance is to the E. The S elevation of the main block has 3 bays with 2-storey canted windows corbelled out to form gables above 1st floor. There are French doors at the centre of both canted windows. A small gabled window is situated between the canted windows. Recessed to the W of this is a slightly lower 2-storey block, and beyond that is a single storey service wing, originally built to contain a wash house, dairy and other offices. A small kitchen courtyard is accessed from the N elevation. All the window openings are chamfered; the two openings to the porch are shoulder-arched; there is a corniced string course around principal block that is moulded to encircle the down-pipes. The chimney stacks are coped and many of the original octagonal clay cans remain.

Interior: stone bench inside porch; tiled floor to lobby. Access to the interior was not gained (2005), but the house appears to retain most of its original fixtures.

Materials: neatly coursed, squared, stugged sandstone with ashlar dressings. Timber panelled front door with brass handle. 6-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; plate glass to canted windows. Graded grey slate roof. Tin gable finials.

Walled Garden, Gardener's Cottage and Ancillary Building: roughly rectangular walled garden to W of house, with dormered gardener's cottage adjoining N wall. Small ancillary building with rendered walls and timber-boarded door between house and garden.