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Country House, built on the site of an earlier house or manor. There appears to be no remains of the original Byth House except for a plaque bearing the date of 1593. The buildings to the east of the modern house are later editions which have recently been gutted and made into byres, although the tradition is that they were the servant's quarters of the house. A photo in the possession of the owner shows the pre-1928 house to be an 18th century manor house, and shows little or no evidence of earlier work. A new house was built on the site in 1932 Byth House belonged to the Urquharts in 1721, who had bought the Barony of Byth ten years earlier. It is however believed that the earliest parts of the previous house were erected in 1593 by Duncan Forbes, whose family held the estate during the 16th and first half of the 17th century. The house is surrounded by a designed landscape. To the north of the house is the home farm. It is depicted on the OS maps of 1867 and 1888 as a rectangular steading with central open court. The east and west ranges have projections to the east and west respectively as their southern ends. The south side has a small projection in the centre to the south. There are entrance gaps in the northeast and northwest corners. A dovecot at the home farm is early 19th century in date (NJ85NW0063). Today the court is built over and the projection on the west side is now roofless.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)