Echline Farmhouse, Echline

Late 18th century; front addition circa 1820. 2-storey, 3-bay dwelling house. Painted harl with exposed margins to rear; exposed maginsl roughly coursed rubble to front with raised margins. Base course; strip quoins to front; raised cills; eaves course; cornice; blocking course raised at centre.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; anta pilastered doorpiece with plain deep entablature; deeply recessed panelled door; rectangular fanlight. Regular fenestration pattern; relieving arches over ground floor windows.

S ELEVATION: single windows in right bay of front section at both floors; relieving arch over ground floor window. 2-storey, 2-bay gable end; regular fenestration.

W ELEVATION: 2-storey, 3-bay regular fenestration; porch in left bay.

N ELEVATION: single window in left bay at ground floor with relieving arch; single window in right bay at 1st floor; single storey extension with attic to ground floor of gable end; window in each face.

Reglazed timber sash and case windows. Slate roof; straight skews; tall ashlar stacks at ends of front wing; short rubble stacks at gableheads of rear.

INTERIOR: curved stair and oval rooflight formed in centre of old house probably dating from circa 1820; decorative painted fanlights in doorways to rear rooms at left of new wing; smaller fanlight is a portrait of Sir Walter Scott; larger fanlight is a series of six postcard scenes of Swiss towns: Zurich, Tribourg, Berne, Geneve, Eale and Lucerne.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low rubble garden wall with round coping; droved dressings at the gatepiers.