Stuc-An-T-Sagairt

Stuc-An-T-Sagairt is a large three-storey T-plan harled house with single-storey pavilions, built between 1750 and 1753. It was originally the house of David Graeme of Orchil, factor to the 2nd Duke of Montrose. The house was designed by Alexander Gowan, possibly with input from John Adam, and constructed by mason James Mushet. It is situated to the south-east of Milton of Buchanan, on the south-east side of the Stuc-An-T-Saigart burn, and represents one of the largest 18th-century houses in the parish.

The principal north-west elevation faces towards Milton of Buchanan village and was originally clearly visible from the main road, though later planting now obscures it from some angles. This elevation comprises a central three-storey, three-bay block with flanking two-bay single-storey wings, likely to have been service wings. Originally symmetrical, the characteristic restrained 18th-century character has been compromised by later alterations: non-traditional overhanging bracketed eaves have been added to the single-storey sections and carried across the central section between ground and first floor; timber shutters have been added to several windows; a timber and glazed porch has been inserted at the central entrance doorway; and dormers have been added to the north-east single-storey wing. The original cavetto eaves cornice and roll skewputts are still visible. The north-east wing has been extended to the rear with non-traditional part-slated platform-roofed additions.

The rear south-east elevation of the three-storey section features a central projecting single-bay jamb of the same height. Twentieth-century flat-roofed dormers have been inserted into the roof of this section, and a lean-to single-storey extension, possibly of late 19th or early 20th-century date, has been added to part of the south-west single-storey wing and the left bay of the central section.

The building is constructed in harled rubble. Windows are mostly 12-pane timber sash and case, with 6-pane to the second floor. The pitched roofs are covered with graded slates and feature stone skews and skew-putts to the central section. All original gables have harled and coped gable-head stacks.

The principal entrance at the centre of the north-west elevation opens into a hall with access to a dogleg stone stair featuring shallow risers, which rises the full three storeys of the central section. Although the interior has undergone considerable alteration, the floor-plans appear to remain largely as originally built. Some rooms retain roll-moulded cornicing and original joinery, including shutters and architraves. A second-floor room contains a reeded timber chimneypiece with roundels—a design common to several 18th-century Buchanan Castle Estate buildings—with a round-arched cast-iron grate.

The house was subdivided into four dwellings in the later 20th century.

To the north of the house stands a single-arch rubble-built bridge over the Stuc-an-t-saigart Burn, dating to the late 18th century. It is likely to be the bridge referred to in the estate Cashier's account book of 1797–1798, which records a payment of £35 to John Bryce for building a bridge at Stuckentaggart.