Craigielands House

Craigielands House is a Greek revival villa and small mansion designed by William Burn and built in 1817, with alterations made in 1882. The house has a basement, a single storey, and an attic. It is constructed of bull-faced whinstone in graded courses, with contrasting ashlar dressings and margins. The building has a rectangular plan, organized around a tall, square stair tower.

The east elevation features a prominent, pedimented tetrastyle portico with baseless Doric columns and an oculus. A recessed doorway is located centrally beneath the portico, featuring sidelights and a decorative fanlight. The flanking windows are corniced and architraved, with cills linked to the base course. A narrow pilastered attic floor is a later addition.

The west and flank elevations are similar, each with three bays and an advanced central gable, with attic windows located below the eaves at the west end.

The eaves are blocked, with corniced stacks, slated and leaded roofs, and a piended roof. The central tower has a concealed roof, and there is a small lantern to the rear (west) of the tower.

The rear elevation was altered in 1882, with the addition of a bracketted central oriel linked by curved and cantilevered bays to flanking lean-to extensions.

The interior includes a cantilevered stone stair, decorative plasterwork, pilastered marble chimney pieces, panelled and architraved doors, and a round-arched doorway with a mosaic floor in the vestibule.