Logan House

Logan House is a simple classical mansion house dating from 1702, which was substantially remodelled in 1952 following the demolition of an extensive Baronial addition designed by David Bryce in 1874. The house is built as a three-storey structure with a raised basement, arranged in a three-bay plan with a T-shaped extension to the rear. It is rendered in painted pebbledash, with some original ashlar dressings retained chiefly on the west elevation, alongside concrete dressings added in 1952, including margins, rusticated quoins, and a continuous eaves cornice. The second floor features square windows. A single-storey service wing by David Bryce of 1874 remains adjoined to the north.

The principal east elevation is distinguished by a pedimented bay advanced at the centre, within which sits a central doorway flanked by windows at ground floor level. The doorpiece itself is segmental and pedimented, with flanking Corinthian columns and moulded architrave; some concrete repairs are evident. Two-leaf panelled doors are accessed by sweeping steps up to the door, furnished with an iron barley-sugar balustrade and timber handrail. A carved armorial panel occupies the tympanum. Windows at the first and second floors occupy the centre position, with additional windows to ground, first and second floors in the outer bays.

The north elevation displays a three-bay arrangement with a broad bowed bay at the centre, each floor lit by a window; at basement level the windows are set out of line to the right. The bowed bay is crowned by a swept semi-conical roof. Windows appear at ground, first and second floors in the outer bays, though the second-floor window in the right bay is blind. A door serves the basement in the left bay, and a slit window is set within a blocked doorway in the right bay at basement level. A harled wall adjoins to the left, with the service wing adjoining to the right, together forming a courtyard.

The south elevation features broad three-light windows at basement and ground floor levels at the centre. A door opens to the right at basement level. Windows appear to the left and to the right of centre at the first and second floors. The south return of the west elevation is recessed to the left.

The west elevation is arranged in three bays. A piended jamb is advanced at the centre, featuring a tripartite French window at ground floor, accessed by a broad flight of steps with iron balustrade. Windows occupy the centre at first and second floors. The south return of the jamb has windows to all floors, though that at ground floor is set out of line to the right. A small full-height piended block is positioned in the re-entrant angle to the south, lit by windows at ground, first and second floors, with additional windows to the south. The right bay has a window to the left at each floor level. The north return of the jamb is lit by windows at first and second floors. The left bay is lit at first and second floors. A two-storey flat-roofed block fills the re-entrant angle to the north, with windows to basement and ground floor on the west side. The single-storey service wing adjoins to the north.

Throughout the house, sash and case windows predominate, principally with twelve-pane glazing, reducing to six-pane glazing at the second floor. Two ashlar-dressed, coped, squared and snecked rubble ridge stacks rise from the main roofline. A broad, corniced, harled wallhead stack serves the north return of the west elevation. The roofs are covered with grey slates and feature piended profiles with slightly swept eaves.

The interior contains an impressive spiral staircase with timber balustrade, its balusters alternately fluted and barley-sugar turned. Simple marble chimney surrounds are present, along with some fine plaster cornices.

The service wing, designed by David Bryce in 1874, adopts an L-plan arrangement adjoined to the north elevation of the main house, with a courtyard formed by a wall to the east. The structure is harled overall, with squared and snecked red sandstone ashlar to its north elevation and red sandstone ashlar dressings throughout.

The north elevation features a gabled bay to the left, containing a roll-moulded round-arched carriage entrance with two-leaf boarded doors. A low broad door serves to the right, with a gabled bay recessed to the outer right.

The west elevation displays four bays, with a gabled bay advanced to the left of centre containing a ground floor window and a loop window in the gablehead. A very narrow window flanks the bay to the right, with windows serving the remaining bays.

The courtyard (east) elevation accommodates a door to the right, with three windows providing light to the interior.

The eastern gable bay is blank, surmounted by a weathervane, whilst a flat-coped wall to the left encloses the courtyard.

Two gabled louvred ventilators pierce the east and west roof pitches. Ashlar coped skews and skewends are present, with coped ashlar stacks rising from the gablehead to the north and from the ridge centre. Cast-iron rainwater goods serve the structure.

A raised terrace constructed of red sandstone masonry from the 1874 addition stands in front of the house on the east side, finished with a flat-coped wallhead surmounted by two stone urns. The driveway to the northeast is defined by two squat piers, each surmounted by a stone pineapple. Several small iron lamp standards on tripod bases punctuate the grounds.