Ruchlaw Mains

Ruchlaw Mains is a farmhouse dating from around 1800, featuring two stories and three bays, with later additions. The exterior is finished in white painted harling, accented with droved sandstone dressings, and the windows are also painted.

On the southeast elevation, there is a stugged ashlar rectangular porch with a blocking course added at the center, which contains a two-leaf door with a small-pane fanlight. The windows are grouped towards the center, with additional windows in each bay on the first floor beneath the eaves.

The northeast elevation features a rectangular stairwell with a catslide roof that projects at the center, along with one window under the eaves. To the left, there is an advanced single-storey flat-roofed addition set in a re-entrant angle, and to the right, an earlier single-storey addition with a catslide roof. There are two first-floor windows under the eaves to the left of the stairwell and one to the right.

The northwest elevation is blank, having a modern conservatory added. The east elevation includes a single-storey piend-roofed addition that spans the full width of the ground floor, with a doorway to the left and irregular windows on the north elevation. There is also a first-floor window to the left of the main gable. The original house features a four-pane glazing pattern in its sash and case windows, plain raised skews, and coped gable wallhead stacks. The roof is covered with purple slates, and there are skylights on the north pitch and the east addition.

The property is enclosed by high rubble boundary walls that connect to the house at the southwest, linking with steading walls to the south. There is a rubble-coped wall to the north, and a harled quadrant with ashlar coping by the house to the southeast, which includes a stugged square ashlar pier. Drum piers with decorative iron gates are located by the steading to the southeast.