Blue Acre, Dundas Castle

Blue Acre, located at Dundas Castle, is a late 19th century single storey and attic cottage featuring three gabled bays and decorative timber details. The structure is built from squared and snecked sandstone rubble, accented with polished ashlar dressings, and has overhanging eaves.

On the north elevation, the entrance is centrally located with a panelled timber door and evidence of a former porch. To the left, there is a three-light canted window, while the right bay contains a bipartite window. The stone gabled dormerheads are adorned with decorative timber bargeboarding, with a bipartite design on the left.

Both the east and west elevations showcase decorative bracketed bargeboarding at the gableheads. The south elevation features an irregular arrangement and size of windows, with a catslide roof over the attic rooms and margin panes on the stair window.

The cottage has timber sash and case windows with small pane glazing in the upper sashes. The roof is covered with grey slate and features decorative terracotta ridging and cans, along with corniced gablehead stacks.

The interior was not seen in 1997. Surrounding the property is a stepped boundary wall with rounded coping, which ends in a gatepier to the east of the cottage.