Beesknowe House

Beesknowe House is a single-storey and attic cottage built in 1886 by Robert Rowand Anderson, designed in the English vernacular style. The building is constructed from squared and snecked red sandstone with ashlar dressings on the ground floor and features mock timber-framing on the attic floor.

The north elevation is asymmetrical with three bays. To the left, there is an advanced gabled bay that has a stone mullioned row of five narrow lights at the ground level. The jettied attic floor features a five-light canted oriel that rises from decorative arcaded timber-framing, with the apex also jettied. The porch is located at the centre, set in a re-entrant angle, and has a cat-slide roof, with slightly advanced single-storey wings flanking it. The tripartite windows are set in segmentally arched panels and the entrance is on the west side through a depressed arch doorway.

The west elevation includes a two-storey, two-bay addition at the centre with segmental windows to the north and a panelled two-leaf door. There is a four-light window flanking the bay to the right, which has a doorway on the north return. The outer right bay is detailed similarly to the left bay and features a gabled four-light dormer window.

On the south elevation, the outer right bay is gabled (the south end of the cross wing) and has a narrow five-light window, with a stack flanking the centre bay. There is a low stone mullioned bipartite window at the centre and a tripartite swept dormer window above. The outer left bay has a canted five-light window, which was added after 1926, and features a piend roof. A glazed lean-to conservatory has been inserted between the outer right bay at ground level and a small stone boiler house that was formerly detached.

The east elevation has a window to the left and a slightly advanced stack to the right with a saw-tooth set-off near the ground. The west elevation is blank with a slightly advanced stack at the centre, breaking through the apex of the eaves. The cottage features small-pane casement windows, timber mullions on the attic windows, and tile hanging on the sides of the dormer windows. The roof is covered with rosemary tiles, and there are ashlar copings on the stacks. The mock timber-framing includes studded details, and the eaves are overhanging with barge boarding. Decorative gutter fixtures are also present.