Kirkwood

Kirkwood is a Scots Baronial mansion designed by Walter F Lyon of London, constructed between 1880 and 1881. The building features an asymmetrical design and is made of snecked bull-faced red ashlar with polished dressings, margins, roll-moulding, and corbelling. It is mostly two storeys high and includes an imitation tower house at the southwest, which has a conical-roofed corbelled angle turret. There is a corresponding tall wide gable and a corbelled square turret at the eastern end of the house.

The windows are primarily mullioned and transomed, especially on the ground floor, and the dormer heads are finialled and pedimented, breaking through the eaves. Some gables are crowstepped, while others have skews with finials or skewputts. The building has coped stacks and slate roofs. An advanced gable on the west flank features a pedimented doorway in a low block that fills the re-entrant angle, all supported by a continuous corbel table. The north elevation boasts a large stair window, with one advanced bay canted at ground level and corbelled to a square below the gable head.

Inside, the mansion is adorned with extensive timber panelling in the halls, stair, and rooms, as well as timber and marble chimneypieces.