Heydour House

Heydour House is a former Rectory, now a house, dating from 1857 and designed by William White. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar and red brick dressings, incorporating red brick bands at irregular intervals. It features a glazed black pantile roof with three shaped stone ridge stacks and one partially external wall stack. The house is two storeys with attics, and has an irregular front with two projecting gables at each end. An off-centre door is sheltered by a projecting gabled porch of timber and stone. To the left of the entrance is a three-light window and a further door, above which is a canted projection covered in fish scale brown and black tiles, with glazed lights above and a sloping roof returning to the re-entrant corner. All window arches and decorative panels are in polychromatic brickwork. The projecting left wing has a single four-light ground-floor window with stone mullions and timber casements, under a decorative arch and panel. Above this are a three-light and a single-light timber casement, treated similarly, with a further two-light casement in the gable. Beyond this is a one-bay, one-and-a-half storey wing with a sloping roof and a single three-light stone mullioned window. The gabled projection on the right has a full-height partially external shaped stack. The roof over the entrance porch incorporates a gabled dormer with four lights and ‘Gothic’ quatrefoil tracery, and a further three-light dormer with a sloping roof. The side front has two bays divided by a stepped gabled buttress. On the left is a three-light stone mullioned window with trefoil heads and above it a four-light through eaves dormer under a red plain tiled gable. To the right is a large five-light bay window with a sloping tiled roof, and above that a small two-light casement to eaves. The garden front is of four irregular bays, with the end bays gabled. An off-centre door with a pointed arch and decorative panel is flanked to the left by two four-light stone mullioned casements with trefoil heads and polychromatic relieving arches, and to the right by a 20th-century two-light casement. Above the door, at each end, are single four-light windows with pointed arches and decorative panels, and in the centre a further single light and two-light casement to eaves. A four-light window is located in the right-hand gable; the top of the gable is hung with plain tiles. Two plain tiled dormers and two plain tall stacks are present in the roof. The interior features contemporary stone fireplaces and arched, decorated beams, including stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.