Fawnlees House

Fawnlees House is a house dating to the late 17th century, with alterations and additions made in 1787 and around 1900. The exterior is painted rough render with a painted plinth, ashlar dressings, and a stone-tiled roof with stone gable copings. It has ashlar and yellow brick chimneys. The main building is two storeys high with four windows, and a left extension is two storeys high with two windows. A glazed door is set within an architrave, topped by a pulvinated frieze and a pediment bearing the date 1787. There are tripartite sash windows in the first bay, over the door, and 16-pane sashes in the two right bays. The left extension has a circa-1900 bow window with a stone-flagged roof, and further sash and tripartite windows with glazing bars within raised stone surrounds. The main building has a corniced ashlar parapet-on-eaves band. The end gable copings have kneelers at the rear, and there are three ridge chimneys.

Inside, the room to the left of the door features exposed beam and joists with run-out stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. A chamfered Tudor-arched stone chimney-piece is present, said to be adjacent to a stair now concealed within the wall’s thickness. A shell-canopied corner cupboard with panelled lower doors is located in the right-end room. The rear stair was renewed around 1900.