Orchardbank

Orchardbank is a house likely built in the early 19th century and reworked in 1846, as indicated by a date inscription. This two-storey, five-bay house features a piend roof and is designed in a plantation style. It has an Ionic doorpiece and colonial-style verandah wings with incised plinths that were added in 1846, along with a timpany gable at the rear. The northern elevation is constructed of Angus-type rubble with large quoins, while the southern elevation, which is the principal facade, is harled with an eaves course and quoin strips. Stone cills are present throughout.

The principal southern elevation includes an Ionic porch and a deep-set door with a decorative fanlight located to the left of centre. To the right of centre, there is a further modern door. The first floor features regular fenestration close to the eaves. Both the eastern and western elevations have first-floor verandahs under the piend roof, supported by Doric columns on sandstone plinths. The central plinth is inscribed with '1846 ERECTED BY ALEX LINDSAY LATE OF EAST INDIES'. The northern elevation showcases a large early stair window and a timpany gable with a blocked window.

The stair window has a 20-pane glazing pattern, while the western elevation verandah features a similar 16-pane pattern casement window. Most openings are predominantly boarded up as of 2010. The house primarily features small-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows, except where noted. There are out-of-character concrete pantiles and brick stacks, along with some cast iron rainwater goods, including a bearded head at the southeast angle of the principal elevation.

Inside, the house retains some good interior details, including six-panelled doors, panelled shutters and reveals, architraves, and shallow wall cupboards. There are moulded cornices and decorative plasterwork ceiling roses. The first-floor drawing room features a sideboard arch, and there is a cantilevered staircase with decorative ironwork balusters.

The property is enclosed by coped rubble boundary walls, some of which are drystone. There is a square-section, flat-coped gatepier and two-leaf decorative ironwork gates at the southwest angle of the house.