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House, kennels and pavilion, still in use. The house was built in 1858, then redesigned and extended in circa 1885, incorporating earlier fabric. The kennels were built in 1850 and the pavilion in the late 19th century. The carpenter for the 1885 redesigned house was Watson, the slater Innes, the plumber Farquhar and Gill, the plasterer Mitchell, and the mason Beaton. The current building is a diminutive version of Baile-na-Coille (NO29SE0030), and may have been John Brown's earlier home. It is a two-storey, gabled, U-plan Germanic house that is constructed from stugged and coursed granite with polished dressings, a base course, a corbel course dividing floors, a partially jettied first floor, timber mullions and transoms, drop pendant timber brackets to deeply overhanging eaves, graded grey slates to the shallow pitched roof, scroll-flanked kingposts to principal gables, cusp-headed barge boards to dormerhead, buckle quoin barge boards to porch and coped gablehead and ridge stacks. The north entrance elevation is three-bay, with a gabled stone porch at the centre with stop-chamfered arrises and a pointed-arch doorway with a two-leaf, panelled door and a narrow window on one return elevation. The bay to the west has a bipartite at the ground and a first floor window breaking the eaves in a gabled dormerhead with swept eaves. The bay to the east is advanced, with a bipartite at the ground and a tripartite at the first floor. The symmetrical, three-bay east elevation has a slightly advanced gabled bay at the centre with a tripartite at the ground and a bipartite in the gablehead. The flanking bays have narrow bipartites in the ground floors, the northern one being blind. The advanced gable of the main house is to the north of the west elevation, with a blind arrowslit and narrow window at the ground and a corbelled, raised chimneybreast at the first floor. There is a single window to the harled elevation of the rear wing. The south elevation has a gabled wing to the west with a raised, battered chimneybreast and ashlar-coped skews (probably from 1850). The gable to the east has a small window at the centre flanked by blind arrowslits and a first floor bipartite window. The central door is in an advanced flat-roofed porch. To the south of the house are rectangular-plan, four-bay, single storey, gabled kennels with railed runs, abacking rising ground. It is constructed from stugged and coursed variegated granite that is partly harled, with ashlar coped skews and graded grey slates to the roof that has a stone ridge, cast-iron rooflight and a stack to the rear wallhead to the south. The east elevation of the kennels has a former door to the east (now blocked as a window) and doors fronted by railed enclosures to the remaining bays, each flanked to the east by small windows. There is rounded coping to a coursed granite base with spearhead iron railings and the boarded doors have sliding surveillance hatches. The south gable is blank, with a wide later machinery door slapping the north gable. To the south of the kennels is a long, octagonal timber pavilion named Eagle House. It has a granite base, slatted timber to the north end and horizontal over vertical spaced boarding to dado height to the centre and south with railed boards above and later wire grilles. The east and west faces are longer with canted ends and two doors to the east. There are very fine slates to the polygonal roof with overhanging eaves and decorative, glazed terracotta ridge tiles. A small plaque to the East face is inscribed 'eagles out of nest, Craig Giubha, 1885'.
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