Glencairn

Glencairn is a house dating from the mid to late 19th century, with some later alterations. It is constructed of granite rubble with granite dressings and has slate roofs, featuring crested ridge tiles and gable ends. Lateral chimney stacks are present, with brick shafts.

The house is arranged with a double-depth plan. The front has a projecting bay providing the main entrance, and three principal rooms face the garden. Service rooms are located to the rear left, contained within a wing that encloses a small courtyard.

The asymmetrical front elevation features a projecting gable end with a two-storey shallow gabled porch tower. This tower is entered via a two-centred arched doorway with double, half-glazed doors featuring Gothic glazing, flanked by buttresses. The first floor of the tower has a two-light window, topped with a terracotta finial, and the main gable above has a similar finial. To the right of the tower, an external stack is visible, and a first-floor string course runs along the façade.

The garden front is characterised by gabled bays projecting to the left and right and a central bay. The left-hand bay has a two-storey canted bay with a hipped roof and plate-glass casements at both ground and first floor levels. The right-hand bay contains a three-light window at ground floor level, and a two-light window at first floor level, with a single light to the attic. The central bay has two-light windows at both ground and first floor levels, with a first-floor string course.

A service courtyard is accessed via a pair of square granite piers, approximately two metres high, with stepped pyramidal caps. To the left side of the house, a large gable covers the stair hall, featuring a mullion and transom window with four margin-glazed Gothic lights and a single light at ground floor level. A 20th-century addition is attached to the left. There is also a two-storey addition to the rear left and a two-storey service wing behind, with a hipped roof and end stack to the left. This service wing features two margin-glazed sash windows at ground floor level and one at first floor level, and a single-storey lean-to of the 19th century is attached to the end.

Inside, the front room on the garden front has a marble fireplace with consoles, a fine 19th-century cast-iron grate with an ogee hood and crocketed pinnacles. The stairwell, located to the left of the entrance, has an open well staircase with turned balusters and a moulded wreathed handrail. The porch features fielded dado panelling.