Easter Hatton And Gates, Ratho

Later 19th century 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan gabled house with rear projections, reworked and extended late 19th century with taller 2-bay addition to W. Stugged, coursed ashlar with polished ashlar margins and dressings. Base course, string course, bargeboards, overhanging bracketted eaves.

S (MAIN) ELEVATION: late 19th century advanced gabled entrance block in penultimate bay to left; deep-set door at centre under deeply-moulded round arch; round- headed, wooden, panelled door with leaded border glazing. Round-headed, traceried windows in right and left returns; bipartite window at 1st floor level. Single bay to left; bipartite window at ground, single window at 1st floor. Lower, symmetrical 3-bay original block to right; masonry evidence suggests door originally at centre with gabled porch now blocked as window and with bargeboard gable over. Tripartite window in flanking ground floor bays, single windows at 1st floor.

W ELEVATION: 3-bay; full-height bowed window to outer right, window at ground and 1st floor of centre bay, bargeboarded gablehead to outer left bay; tripartite window at ground, bipartite window at 1st floor.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: sandstone rubble with raised polished sandstone margins; 2 projections to left and right. Round-headed stair window in advanced left side of right jamb, wooden tracery with honeycomb leaded panes; 2 small narrow windows below, blank to outer right. Bipartite window at centre ground of jamb to left; bipartite and single window at 1st floor; asymmetrical arrangement of windows on returns of jambs. 2-bay centre; tall windows to right; smaller windows to left.

E ELEVATION: asymmetrical; bargeboarded gable to blank bay off-centre to left; single outer left bay; 2 bays to right with blank outer right wall. Single storey, lean-to scullery to outer right. Long range of rubble-built, single storey outhouses projecting to E from wall of house (possibly including dairy).

6-lying-pane glazing over plate glass for sash and case of original house; 9-pane over plate glass for later additions; sky-lights on S ridge. Grey slate piended roof. Coursed sandstone and whinstone ridge stacks with ashlar cornices.

INTERIOR: not seen August 1992.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATE: rubble wall with semi-circular coping surrounds kitchen court at rear left. Rubble wall, now mostly obscured with overgrowth faces Glasgow road. Right gate and piers intact; ashlar piers; panelled, wooden 2-leaf gate with decorative cast-iron panels.