Pyotts Cottage

Pyotts Cottage is a house dating to 1907, designed by H. Baillie-Scott for Miss Rose E. Douglas and later subject to alterations. The construction combines roughcast brick with a plain tile roof, partially replaced with concrete tile in 1981. Chimneys have roughcast finishes and tile cornices. Mullioned windows with leaded casements are fitted, displaying decorative iron catches and tile dripmoulds on the ground floor.

The house has an L-shaped plan, with a service wing projecting to the front right. The two-storey entrance elevation features five bays, with the bays at the 1st, 3rd and end gabled, the rightmost projecting as a wing. The left bay contains an external chimney with offsets and small two-light windows on each floor. The central bay provides access via a stepped entrance with a studded panelled door, a two-light side window, a tile dripmould, and a lozenge-shaped date stone inscribed with the initials of Rose Douglas and her companion, Florence Firmstone. A two-light window sits to the left, with two more above, and a stair cross-window above on the right. The gable of the wing on the right has a catslide roof to the left containing two-light windows to each floor and a stack on the right. A re-entrant side contains windows of five and one light on the ground floor, and of three lights above. A stack is located to the rear of bay 4.

The garden elevation is four bays wide. The two left bays are gabled with tile kneelers and lozenge-shaped tile gable vents; the left bay has a two-light window to the right and a four-light window above. The second bay features a flat-roofed five-light bow window with a four-light window above (with replacement central lights). A dated rainwater hopper is positioned between the gables and a chimney is present in the valley. The roof descends lower over the right-hand bays. Bay 3 accommodates a loggia with a tiled pavement and a part-glazed door leading to the lounge; a flat-roofed four-light dormer sits above (with two lights replaced). The right bay features a transomed five-light window that returns around corners. The left return elevation has three-light windows to each floor, with a gable vent and kneelers matching those on the garden elevation. The right return elevation presents windows of one, two, and three lights and a door moved to its present location from an earlier position.

Inside, several original features remain, including wood block and brick floors, panelled doors and cupboards, wall panelling and fireplaces. Notably, the lounge and principal bedroom (above) have inglenook fireplaces, the lounge features a window seat, and the staircase is constructed in a 17th-century style, with turned balusters and pyramidal finials to the newels. Miss Douglas and Miss Firmstone were prominent figures in contemporary city life.