Stable Block And Kennels, Lotus House

The stable block and kennels, along with a walled garden incorporating Garden Cottage to the east and Stables Cottage to the west, were mostly built in the first half of the 19th century. The structures are rubble-built with ashlar dressings and have slated roofs. The walled garden has an unusual, roughly keyhole shape, with ashlar-coped walls. It is entered from the north and south walls, with steps and serpentine quadrants near the Garden Cottage to the east.

The Garden Cottage faces east, with a curved plan following the line of the garden wall. It is single-storey with an attic and has three bays. A central door has a fanlight, and a swept-roofed dormer sits above it; gabled dormers with cills breaking through the eaves are in the outer bays. Sash windows are present throughout. Straight skews and end stacks are visible. Flanking bays have been demolished, with symmetrical low wings added and alterations to the rear elevation completed around 1987 by A C Wolffe.

The stables are arranged around a courtyard and consist of three ranges. The east range is now a two-story house, and its western (courtyard) elevation has been significantly altered with inserted tripartite windows featuring a small-pane glazing pattern. The detached ranges run parallel and have piended roofs at the east. The north range, built of cherry-caulked rubble, is a tall barn with slit ventilators to the west and square-headed openings. The south range, comprising the kennels, has a plain north wall facing the courtyard, with bays featuring stone piers along the entire length of the south wall.

The boundary between Dumfries and Galloway and South Lanarkshire runs north-south, bisecting the walled garden. The site is part of a group of buildings of group value with Lotus House.