Torwood Cottage

Torwood Cottage is a symmetrical neo-classical villa built around 1829. It is a single storey and basement structure featuring a fine polished grey sandstone ashlar entrance elevation at the south and red sandstone rubble at the rear. The building has a double bow-ended plan with a wide, three-bay south front that includes a colonnaded bowed entrance portico. The rear has a later gabled wing made of stugged red sandstone rubble. Currently, the building is roofless, with the rear and end walls partially collapsed, and the interior is mostly lost as of 1992.

The south elevation showcases a wide, symmetrical front with three bays that slightly advance in front of the semi-circular bowed ends. It features a plinth with a recessed panel at the ground level, a broad eaves band, a cornice, and a blocking course. The central feature is a broad, shallow-projecting bowed and colonnaded portico raised on a plinth, supported by tetrastyle Greek Doric columns in antis. These columns are three-quarter fluted in the lower quarter and have square-plan abaci. The entablature lacks a frieze and has a shallow projecting cornice and blocking course. The entrance door is centrally located, flanked by narrow full-height windows, which were boarded up in photographs from 1959. On either side, there are mullioned tripartite windows that originally had sash and case glazing, with 12 panes in the main windows and 4 panes (2 over 2) in the side lights.

The rear elevation features a grey sandstone polished ashlar tripartite set into the red rubble rear wall, enclosed by the later rear wing addition. There is a small compartment in the northeast re-entrant angle. The three-bay rear wing has a brick apex stack and was extended later by a single bay, which includes three regular openings at the ground level on the north gable.

Inside, there are fireplaces located at the center of the rear walls in each of the two apartments, with single windows flanking the right-hand (east) apartment.