Felkirk House

Felkirk House is a house dating from the early 19th century, with a rear wing from the early to mid-18th century, and has undergone alterations. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone, with smaller and more regular masonry to the front, and has slate roofs. The house is arranged in an L-shape, with an early 19th-century three-bay front range built at a right angle to an earlier building that now serves as a long service wing to the rear.

The front range is two storeys high and has three bays, presenting a symmetrical facade. The central doorway features a simple moulded architrave with a small cornice, a panelled door, and a rectangular overlight with radiating glazing bars. Two windows are at ground floor level, and three above, all with raised sills and mostly 16-pane sashes; the lower leaves of the ground-floor windows were temporarily removed for repair in 1987. The roof has a low pitch and side-wall chimneys.

The three-bay rear wing, of two lower storeys, has doorways in the 1st and 3rd bays, with broad beaded jambs and lintels. A modern French window has been inserted into a formerly horizontal rectangular three-light window. Above this is a three-light window, and two-light windows are above each door. All windows in the rear wing feature flat-faced flush mullions, run-out sills and heads, and rectilinear leaded glazing in the outer lights. At the angle where the rear wing meets the main range, an oblique window has been inserted at ground floor level, and a single-light window is above, likely representing the left light of a former two- or three-light window that has been covered by the 19th-century addition.

Inside the front range, the entrance hall contains a dog-legged open-string staircase with scrolled brackets, stick balusters, a ramped handrail with a wreathed curtail, and reeded architraves to doorways and windows, the latter fitted with internal shutters. A thick partition wall between the entrance hall and the right-hand room suggests a remodelling of the fourth bay of the earlier building. The rear wing contains stop-chamfered spine beams and a rectangular brick fireplace with rounded corners, of an early 18th-century style. A second chimney stack and part of the upper floor in the rear wing were removed by previous owners.