Ruchlaw Mains

Circa 1800. 2-storey, 3-bay farmhouse with later

additions. White painted harling with droved sandstone

dressings, painted to windows.

S ELEVATION: stugged ashlar rectangular porch with

blocking course added at centre; 2-leaf door with

small-pane fanlight. Flanking windows grouped towards

centre, with windows to each bay at 1st floor under eaves.

N ELEVATION: rectangular stairwell with catslide roof

projecting at centre; 1 window under eaves. Advanced

single storey flat-roofed addition set in re-entrant angle

to left and earlier single storey addition to right with

catslide roof. 2 1st floor windows under eaves to left of

stairwell, 1 to right.

W ELEVATION: blank with modern conservatory added.

E ELEVATION: single-storey piend-roofed addition at ground

across full width with doorway to left and irregular

windows to N elevation. 1st floor window to left of main

gable. 4-pane glazing pattern to sash and case windows

of original house. Plain raised skews with coped gable

wallhead stacks. Purple slates; skylights to N pitch and

E addition.

BOUNDARY WALLS, PIERS AND GATES: high rubble boundary

walls adjoined to house at SW, linking with steading walls

to S; rubble coped rubble wall to N; harled quadrant

with ashlar coping by house to SE, with stugged square

ashlar pier. Drum piers by steading to SE with

decorative iron gates.