Urquhart House

Urquhart House is a house that features a 17th-century rear wing and a single-storey kitchen at the northwest, with an 18th-century front range and an early 19th-century single-storey addition at the north end. The rear parts are timber framed on stucco sills, roughcast, and topped with old red tile roofs. The main range is constructed of red brick with a chequer pattern of blue headers in the front wall. This impressive two-storey, double-pile house has a central entrance and end chimneys, facing east, with a two-storey northwest wing and a single-storey kitchen.

The front of the house includes a parapet, a bold moulded cornice with modillions, and five upper windows featuring flat gauged arches and a floor band. The central door is accessed by four steps and is flanked by two windows on each side, set on a chamfered plinth. The original flush box sash windows have been replaced by early 19th-century recessed sash windows with margin lights, stone sills, and plastered reveals. The entrance features a six-panel raised and fielded door with radial fanlights, set within a fine Roman Doric doorcase that includes fluted pilasters, a triglyph frieze, and a triangular pediment. The gable parapets have brick copings, and there are moulded kneeler corbels at the rear. A round-headed stair window is located at the rear.

The single-storey north extension has a matching margin-light sash window and door. The rear wing includes a flush box sash window with 8/8 panes. Inside, the entrance hall has a diagonally paved stone floor, and there is a cut string stair with a moulded dado and handrail, featuring a Chippendale Chinese balustrade. The interior also has six-panel ovolo moulded doors, plaster cornices, and dado panelling in the main ground floor rooms. The kitchen has an exposed clasped purlin roof with a large chimney built in English bond.