Allt Dinnie, Birsemore

Later 19th century. Single storey and attic, 5-bay villa with late 19th/early 20th century 2-storey Italianate tower. Squared and snecked granite finely finished to margins. Long and short quoins; overhanging eaves with timber bargeboards.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; early 20th century decorative timber porch forming attic floor balcony to 3 bays to right, window to bay to left, canted 4-light window to centre, through balcony to attic floor, canted 4-light window to right at ground floor; glazed opening to left of attic floor. Square-plan part-engaged tower advanced to penultimate bay to left, bipartite window to centre of ground floor, panelled timber door with semi-circular fanlight to ground floor of right return, flanked to left by pink granite cheese press, window above balcony; rough-faced dividing band course; 3 single-pane round-arched windows to each elevation of 1st floor; dentil-moulded eaves cornice under deeply overhanging eaves; shallow pyramidal slate roof with iron weathervane to apex. Window to ground floor of bay to outer left; canted gableted dormer to attic floor above.

S ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2-bay; bay to left advanced, advanced rectangular-plan tripartite window to ground floor surmounted by 4-light timber window breaking eaves to attic floor; irregular fenestration and lean-to additions to right return. Gabled bay to right with timber doorway flanked by windows to ground floor, bipartite window set in gablehead.

E ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2-bay; gabled bay to right, regular fenestration.

N ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled bay to right, tripartite rectangular-plan window advanced to ground floor with 2 stone steps, tripartite window set in gablehead, flanking bays to left not seen 1999.

Predominantly 2 and 4-pane timber sash and case windows. Purple-grey slate roof with lead ridges. Coped granite wallhead and gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

GATES AND GATEPIERS: decorative cast-iron gates and gatepiers to SE of house, with pedestrian gate flanking to E.