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A mansion house of the 18th and 19th centuries with later additions, within a designed landscape (NJ65NE0082). The nucleus of the house consists of a 'fishing cottage' which was erected by the Duffs of Braco in 1724. The house now mainly dates from 1828, built by William Robertson, with additions from 1903. The interior was also remodelled in 1828 and 1903. It is shown on the 1st and 2nd edition OS maps as an irregular H-plan house, with various projecting and recessed sections. The house is harled with extensive use of polished Moray sandstone ashlar dressings to the front east elevation and ashlar dressings to the rest of the house. The slate roof has paired stacks to the 1828 east wing and similar stacks elsewhere, remodelled in 1828. The front elevation is single-storey, and has a pedimented tetrastyle portico with fluted Greek Doric columns, with a centre door with a moulded and lugged doorpiece surmounted by a fanlight with decorative geometric glazing. The elevation has clasping angle pilaster strips. The south elevation is two-storey, with an off centre gabled wing remodelled in 1828. It also features two pronounced full-height bowed bay windows from 1903. The rear elevation has a three-storey centre portion with a door in the raised basement and a 1724 armorial stone initialled ID and MD re-set above the lintel. To the south of the house and garden are the former stables and coach-house (NJ65NE0106) and Bell Cottage (NJ65NE0107), and a walled garden further to the south at NJ 6996 5973. It has a granite finialled doorpiece and a range of cast-iron framed glass-houses abutting the south facing wall. There is a rare survival of an early 19th century glasshouse with an unusually wide span built in three sections with the central one taller. On the northwest exterior face of the wall is a re-set portion of a 17th century lintel.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)