Cairn Robin, Birsemore

Later 19th century. 2-storey, attic and roof terrace, 2-bay, T-plan gabled villa. Tooled, coursed pink granite with ladder snecking to N elevation; granite rubble to remainder; tooled dressings, finely finished to margins. Battered base to N; decorative ironwork finials to apex of N gables; overhanging eaves with timber barge boards.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gableted porch advanced to centre of ground floor, with decorative king-post piercing, pointed-arched stop-chamfered doorway with 2 granite steps, flanked by iron bell-pull, pointed-arched rib-panelled timber door, pointed-arched diamond-pane window to right return, 4-pane window above porch to right; roof swept down to 1st and attic floors of centre, tripartite gableted dormer to attic. 4-light canted window to ground floor of flanking bay to right, forming balcony to piend-roofed tripartite window breaking eaves at 1st floor. Bipartite window to ground floor of bay to left, under slate-roofed canopy with decorative timber brackets, tripartite window to 1st floor above. Circular tower adjoining to outer left angle, 2 windows to ground and 2 to 1st floors, conical fishscale tiled roof with weathercock finial to apex.

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3-bay; gabled bay advanced to left, gableted porch advanced to left of ground floor with window to left return, 4-pane window above porch to right, window to right return of bay; window to ground floor of centre bay, bipartite stained glass window to attic, with catslide roof; tripartite window to ground floor of flanking bay to right, gableted window breaking eaves to 1st floor.

S ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2-bay; gabled bay advanced to left with lean-to addition to ground floor, timber door to left return, 2-pane skylights to roof; 4-pane window off-centre to left above lean-to. Decorative gableted window to 1st floor of bay to right, breaking eaves; tripartite dormer with catslide roof to centre of attic floor.

E ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2 gabled bays; window off-centre to left of ground floor of bay to right, tower adjoining to outer right (see above); 6-pane window off-centre to right of ground floor of bay to left, 4-light canted oriel window with dentil-moulded cornice off-centre to right of 1st floor, 6-pane window set in gablehead of attic floor.

Variety of small-pane timber sash and case and casement windows. Green-grey slate roof with lead ridge. Coped granite gablehead, wallhead and ridge stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND ANCILLARY STRUCTURE: harl-pointed granite rubble boundary walls with rubble coping. Boarded timber ancillary structure set in wall to SW of house, 2-leaf large timber door, grey slate roof with rosemary tiled roof.