Walled Garden With Fountain, Longhaven House

Circa 1860 (possibly later). Tall 2-storey, 3-bay, U-plan, piend-roofed classically-detailed house. Stugged red granite with contrasting granite ashlar dressings, and long and short quoins. Deep base and band courses, eaves cornice. Segmental-headed openings; roll-moulded doorpiece. Stone mullions.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: centre bay with broad pilastered doorway, 2-leaf panelled timber door and plate glass fanlight under consoled canopy giving way to plain banded balcony at 1st floor bipartite window with column mullion; flanking bays each with canted window at ground giving way to plain banded balcony and widely-spaced bipartite window at 1st floor.

W ELEVATION: 2 dominant piended bays, each with tall single window at ground and bipartite to 1st floor, bay to left also with later porch to outer left and that to right with 2 additional small windows to left at ground. Low link to narrow centre bay with part-glazed timber door, tall tripartite stair window to set-back face above and single window to each return at 1st floor.

N ELEVATION: canted window (as above) to centre bay at ground, single window immediately to right and further windows to flanking bays; 3 regularly-disposed windows to 1st floor.

S ELEVATION: mirrors the above.

Largely plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows, some multi-pane glazing patterns retained to W and S; coloured glass to stair window. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with full-complement of polygonal cans. Square-section cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings.

INTERIOR: fine interior detail with good decorative scheme in place. Decorative plasterwork, marble (some pink Peterhead marble) and timber fire surrounds some with cast-iron grates and tiled cheeks; architraved doors, carved wood curtain pelmets, dado rails and timber shutters. Screen door, terrazzo floor, fireplace and marble columns in antis leading to stair hall with timber dog-leg staircase, decorative cast-iron balusters and oil-painted mural frieze depicting hunting scenes by C S Bull. Leaded and coloured glass to stair window incorporating monogrammed 'JBS'? to centre light. Library with painted frieze depicting hunting scenes, probably also by C S Bull. Some early bathroom fittings retained, including cast-iron bath with claw feet and shower cubicle.

ANCILLARY BUILDINGS: small courtyard to W with rectangular-plan, snecked rubble ancillaries, some grey slates retained. Cottage part-converted to garage; stable, tack room and byre retaining boarded timber walls, cast-iron fireplace and some tack room fittings.

WALLED GARDEN: semicircular-coped rubble walls (breached in places) enclosing garden of approximately 1 acre, and remains of circular ashlar fountain(?) at centre.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: square-section stugged ashlar gatepiers and end piers, each on rock-faced base with chamfered arrises and moulded octagonal copes; truncated quadrant walls with rock-faced coping stones retained