Echline Farmhouse, Echline

Echline Farmhouse is a late 18th-century, two-storey, three-bay dwelling house, with a front addition dating from around 1820. The building features painted harl with exposed margins at the rear and roughly coursed rubble with raised margins at the front. It has a base course, strip quoins at the front, raised cills, an eaves course, a cornice, and a blocking course that is raised at the center.

The principal elevation is symmetrical, showcasing an anta pilastered doorpiece with a plain deep entablature, a deeply recessed panelled door, and a rectangular fanlight. The windows follow a regular pattern, with relieving arches above the ground floor windows.

On the southeast elevation, there are single windows in the right bay of the front section on both floors, along with a relieving arch over the ground floor window. The two-storey, two-bay gable end has regular fenestration.

The west elevation also features two storeys with three bays and regular fenestration, including a porch in the left bay. The north elevation has a single window in the left bay at ground floor level with a relieving arch, another single window in the right bay at the first floor, and a single-storey extension with an attic at the gable end, which includes a window on each face.

The windows are reglazed timber sash and case. The roof is slate with straight skews, tall ashlar stacks at the ends of the front wing, and short rubble stacks at the gableheads of the rear.

Inside, there is a curved stair and an oval rooflight formed in the center of the old house, likely dating from around 1820. Decorative painted fanlights are present in the doorways to the rear rooms on the left side of the new wing. One smaller fanlight features a portrait of Sir Walter Scott, while a larger fanlight displays a series of six postcard scenes of Swiss towns: Zurich, Tribourg, Berne, Geneve, Eale, and Lucerne.

The boundary walls consist of a low rubble garden wall with round coping and droved dressings at the gatepiers.