Listed Building: BALRANALD HOUSE GARDEN WALLS AND GATEPIERS (17587)

Architect probably Alexander MacKenzie of Portree, 1832/3. 2-storey L-plan farm house, renovated circa 1980, and now linked to single storey former outbuilding to west. Pebbledashed, with rendered margins. North (entrance) elevation: recessed bay right; 3 12-pane sash and case windows each floor, piended off-centre porch with door in re-entrant angle. 2 windows either level of east and south elevations. Single apex and wallhead stacks. Piended slate roof. Former outbuilding also piended, and has garage door cut in short west wall; large apex stack: modern link with house is sympathetic, with small-paned sash windows. Situated at south end of substantial quadrangular garden enclosure; rubble-built walls, coping and square gatepiers, latter corniced, with pyramidal caps. Central dividing wall with wooden gate. Bibliography NMRS index Inverness Journal 1.6.1832& 15.3.1833 (information courtesy of Buildings of Scotland Research Unit).