Strachur House, Home Farm, Stables, North West Range

COURT OF OFFICES. The 'very complete court of offices, which, perhaps, exceed the proportion they should bear to the house' (en.7), comprises four ranges round a rectangular courtyard, measuring 36.5m from NE to SW by 29.3m overall. The NW range, facing the ornamental bridge, and the NE range, both have advanced centrepieces with elliptical arches and moulded pediments. The former, which has a central pend dividing two cottages, has a small oval window in the pediment, which is surmounted by an octagonal timber dovecot. The NE range, with a circular window breaking the lower frame of the pediment, contains stables and an upper hayloft reached by forestairs at the gable-walls. The SW range, formerly a coach-house and now a garage, has a central large round-arched opening in each wall, while the SE range of cottages has been much altered. An L-shaped block to the E, probably of late 18th-century date, includes barns and a cart-shed, and a square tack room of mid-19th-century date stands in the yard enclosed by this block and the stable-range.

RCAHMS 1992, visited July 1987