Greenlaw House

Greenlaw House is a classical symmetrical villa that was under construction in 1741. It features two storeys set over a ground-level basement and was gutted by fire around 1984, becoming partially roofless by 1986. The building has an advanced central block with five bays, flanked by recessed single bays, and both sides have full-height three-window bows.

The south elevation is harled with rusticated quoins and has a wide flight of steps that oversails the basement, leading to a tripartite doorpiece. This entrance is supported by four fluted Ionic pilasters and features an overall segmental pediment. The architraved doorway has a keystoned semi-circular fanlight, flanked by sidelights with an oculus above. The steps are adorned with a cast-iron baluster, which has finely incised and decorative end piers. All windows are architraved, with those on the ground and first floors of the central block being bracketted and lugged. The sash windows have 12-pane glazing.

The rear elevation is made of painted rubble and is designed similarly to the south front, but it includes a Roman-Doric pilastered door to the basement, with a coat of arms positioned over the cornice. All windows here are in plain architraves. The flanks feature full-height projecting bows at the center with three windows, arranged on the ground floor as a Venetian window with a linking lintel band.

The building has piended slate roofs and tall corniced axial stacks with octagonal cans. Inside, there is a stair in the west bow, but the interior fittings were seriously damaged in the fire.