Whitelaw Farmhouse

Whitelaw Farmhouse, built around 1728, is a two-storey farmhouse with a raised basement and five bays. The exterior features white painted harling with painted stone margins and a moulded eaves cornice.

On the west elevation, there is a corniced door in the central bay, topped with a pediment and approached by stone steps with a decorative barley sugar wrought-iron balustrade. The door includes a strip fanlight and glazed panels, with a painted coat-of-arms above in a square panel that meets the cill of the first-floor window above. Ground floor windows flank each bay, with small basement windows similar to those on the east and north elevations, located immediately beside the steps and slightly larger in the outer bays. The first-floor windows are regular in size and smaller than those on the principal floor, with a blind window off-centre to the left. There is a blind oculus in the pediment, and the flanking wallhead stacks have been removed.

The east elevation is symmetrical and largely blank, with a square piend-roofed stairwell projecting at the centre. The south elevation features a piend-roofed, single-storey projection to the right, which includes a fanlit doorway and a small window on the west side, along with a first-floor window to the right. The principal sash and case windows have a 4-pane glazing pattern, while other windows have a small-pane pattern; two stair windows feature a marginal glazing pattern. The gable wallhead stacks have stone quoins and coping with decorative cans, and the roof is covered with grey slates and coped skews.

Inside, the farmhouse is one room deep, featuring panelled interior window shutters and decoratively panelled doors. There is a winding stone stair with a decorative cast-iron balustrade, and an Adamesque classical timber chimneypiece. The entrance includes a tripartite screen with a segmental fanlight.

The boundary walls consist of rubble with rubble coping to the south of the gateway, and a parapet with ashlar coping and wrought-iron railings to the north of the gateway. Square ashlar gatepiers and wrought-iron gates complete the entrance.