Geddes

Geddes is a house dating from the late 16th century, with a rear wing aligned north to south that has a 19th-century addition at its north-east end, forming an L-shape. The main house, which faces south, is from the mid-17th century and has been altered in the 20th century. The building features squared sandstone rubble on the ground floor with ashlar above on the main house, coursed rubble, and slate roofs that are hipped on the main house. There are brick shafts and two 19th-century brick stacks on the rear wing. The main house is single-depth, with a central entry that is now blocked, and end stacks. The L-plan rear wing has a central axial stack, and there are later 19th-century stacks on the north-east gable and to the north of the west lateral wall.

The main house has two storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a plinth and two moulded string courses. It features wide eaves with paired plain brackets, three windows consisting of 3-light and 2-light cross casements, and two dormers with 20th-century glazing bar casements. A 2-light window has replaced the central doorway, and each stack has a pair of diagonal shafts. The rear wing is single storey with an attic, featuring a segmental-headed doorway on the north of the west side and a second doorway to the south of the same side with a square-headed hoodmould. There are two blocked square-headed windows above.

Inside the main house, alterations have occurred, and an ornamental plastered ceiling and panel above the fireplace in the west room, noted by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, are no longer extant. The rear wing has an open fireplace and internal close-studded timber-framed walls with fine chamfered beams. The roof trusses include two queen struts to the collar.