Ord House

Ord House is a house built in the early 18th century for the Orde family, with a new facade and front rooms added in 1789 for William Grieve. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and has a concrete tile roof. It features a double span design with a staircase wing that projects to the rear.

The house has two storeys, plus basements and attics, and consists of five bays. There are eight steps, with 20th-century railings, leading up to a central six-panel door and a fanlight with intersecting glazing bars, all set within an open-pedimented surround supported by attached Tuscan columns. The basement has blank windows, while the other windows are 20th-century sashes in raised surrounds. The eaves cornice and a three-bay pediment are also notable features. The gable roof has rendered end stacks, and on each side, there is a straight join between the two sections marked by down pipes with rainwater heads dated 1789. The lower two-storey, two-bay square pavilions are attached to the rear corners of the older section, with windows in raised surrounds and steeply-pitched swept hipped roofs made of Scottish slate.

Inside, the front rooms showcase late-18th-century interiors. In the former dining room, now a family room, there is a pine fireplace with delicate gesso decoration and Ionic pilasters featuring Adam-style necking, along with a palmette frieze and an elaborately enriched cornice. The drawing room contains a bolder fireplace with an enriched cornice shelf supported by large scrolled brackets, and a plaster frieze decorated with urns, scrolls, and palmettes, as well as an enriched dentil cornice. A similar pine and gesso fireplace is found on the first floor.

In the rear section, there is an early 18th-century staircase featuring carved tread ends, turned balusters, and a boldly-moulded handrail. Additionally, there is a fireplace with an enriched bolection-moulded frieze and an egg-and-dart cornice shelf.