Balfour House

Balfour House is a cottage-style house dating from 1845, with a two-storey wing to the north. The house is harled with finely finished granite chamfered reveals. It has a base course, projecting cills, strip quoins, glazed panelled timber doors and gableted windows to the first floor that break the eaves. The overhanging eaves have decorative timber bargeboards.

The east-facing (entrance) elevation is asymmetrical. A gabled, slightly advanced bay is located to the left, featuring a consoled doorway with two stone steps leading to a two-leaf door with a tall, two-pane fanlight above. A window is centred above the door. Two recessed bays flank the doorway to the right, with a door and a two-pane fanlight to the left of the ground floor, flanked to the right by a window. A timber porch with rusticated timber columns oversails the ground floor. Regular fenestration is found to the first floor. A slightly recessed bay is on the outer left, with a window to the centre of the ground floor and two windows to the first floor. A gabled bay is slightly advanced to the right, with symmetrically placed windows to the ground and first floors. The wing is recessed to the outer right, with regular fenestration to both floors.

The north-facing elevation is near-symmetrical but mainly obscured by the wing. The advanced wing has a door off-centre to the right of the ground floor and a two-pane window centred to the first floor.

The west-facing elevation is also near-symmetrical, with three recessed bays in the centre displaying regular fenestration to both floors. Gabled bays flank the central section to the left and right, with a canted window to the ground floor of the bay to the right. A smaller wing is recessed to the outer left.

The south-facing elevation is asymmetrical, comprising two bays with irregular wall planes. A gabled bay is advanced to the right, featuring a canted window to the centre of the ground floor and a metal ash trap off-centre to the left above. A small window below the eaves is visible in the flanking bay to the left.

The windows are predominantly replacements, using six and eight panes in timber casements. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and has lead and tiled ridges. A variety of wallhead, ridge, and gablehead stacks are present, featuring single, paired, and triple off-set flues. Cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted.

The interior was not inspected in 1999.

To the northwest of the house are square-plan granite gatepiers with shallow pyramidal caps, and a cast-iron gate.