Easter Hatton And Gates, Ratho

Easter Hatton and Gates is a late 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay gabled house, with rear projections, that was reworked and extended in the late 19th century, with a taller two-bay addition to the west. The house is constructed of stugged, coursed ashlar with polished ashlar margins and dressings. A base course, string course, bargeboards, and overhanging bracketed eaves are present.

The south elevation features a late 19th-century advanced gabled entrance block in the penultimate bay to the left. A deeply-moulded round arch shelters a deep-set wooden, panelled door with leaded border glazing. Round-headed, traceried windows are on the returns to the right and left; a bipartite window is at the first-floor level. To the left is a single bay with a bipartite window at ground level and a single window at first floor. The original, lower, symmetrical three-bay block is to the right; masonry reveals that it originally had a door at the centre, which has now been blocked as a window, with a bargeboard gable over. Tripartite windows are in the flanking ground-floor bays, and single windows are at the first floor.

The west elevation is three bays wide, with a full-height bowed window to the outer right. A window is at ground and first floor of the centre bay, and a bargeboarded gablehead is above the outer-left bay, featuring a tripartite window at ground and a bipartite window at first floor.

The north (rear) elevation is of sandstone rubble with raised polished sandstone margins, and includes two projections to the left and right. A round-headed stair window with wooden tracery and honeycomb leaded panes is in the advanced left side, with two small narrow windows below and blanking to the outer right. At the centre ground of the jamb to the left is a bipartite window at ground, and a bipartite and single window at first floor; the arrangement of windows on the jamb returns is asymmetrical. A two-bay centre has tall windows to the right and smaller windows to the left.

The east elevation is asymmetrical with a bargeboarded gable to a blank bay off-centre to the left, and extended through a single outer left bay and two bays to the right with a blank outer right wall. Also present is a single-storey, lean-to scullery to the outer right, and a long range of rubble-built, single-storey outhouses projecting to the east from the wall of the house. These outhouses likely contain a dairy.

The original house has six-pane glazing over plate glass in its sash and case windows; the later additions have nine-pane glazing over plate glass. Sky-lights are on the south ridge. The roof is of grey slate and is piended. The ridge stacks are of coursed sandstone and whinstone with ashlar cornices.

The interior was not documented in August 1992.

A rubble wall with semi-circular coping surrounds the kitchen court at the rear left. A rubble wall, now mostly obscured with overgrowth, faces Glasgow Road. The right gate and piers are intact, with ashlar piers and a panelled, wooden two-leaf gate with decorative cast-iron panels.