Inveresk House, Inveresk Village Road, Inveresk

Inveresk House is a two-storey mansion constructed in phases from the late 17th century onwards. The original eastern range dates to the late 17th century and was later extended to the west in the mid-18th century. An early 19th-century bowed addition and a new doorway were added to the east front. Some earlier fabric was incorporated and panels with dates were re-used in the design. The house is built of stugged rubble sandstone, heavily pointed, with ashlar dressings; rusticated quoins are present on the north side, and a base course and cavetto cornice run along the building. Some of the earlier openings have chamfered arrises.

The east elevation features an early 19th-century two-storey bowed bay at the centre, with three tall windows on each floor, topped with a conical roof and a ball finial. An early 19th-century round-arched doorway is located to the outer left, with impost blocks and a keystone. The doorway has a tripartite door with a lintel ornament and a decorative radial fanlight, featuring decorative leaded glazing patterns to the door panels and flanking lights. A segmental pediment is placed above the keystone, bearing the date 1643 and a monogram MOC/KI. Stone mullioned bipartites have been inserted to the outer right. Two first-floor windows are located to the outer left, with one to the outer right, though modern dormers are now present.

The west elevation has seven bays, grouped 2-2-2-1. Ground floor windows have been enlarged, and paired bays to the right contain stair windows with scrolled cill brackets and Gibbsian keystones, flanking an armorial dated 1682.

The north elevation comprises a rectangular, two-storey, flat-roofed porch projecting off-centre to the right, with rusticated quoins and a cornice. Windows face north, with an oculus at ground floor level. There is a window on each floor on the east return, and a door on the west return. A blocked opening is visible at ground floor level to the left, as is another at first floor level at the outer left, flanked by windows. A former M-gable has been flattened and now contains three attic windows.

Former service buildings are located on the south elevation, but are not part of this listing.

The windows are sash and case with 12-pane and plate glass glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are end stacks.

The interior of the house shows two different levels between the east and west sections at ground floor level; it was much altered during the late 19th century. A retaining 18th-century stone staircase has a scale and platt balustrade and dado panelling, while a 19th-century chimneypiece is in a Jacobean oak style and another is in a later 17th-century style. Decorative plasterwork is found in the entrance hall, corridor, drawing room and bowed rooms.

Retaining walls and piers are of stugged, squared, and snecked rubble sandstone with ashlar coping. Ashlar gatepiers with chamfered arrises and pyramidal caps stand to the west. Two sets of banded and corniced ashlar gatepiers flank the drive to the northwest, with rubble coped rubble walls. A corniced ashlar gateway with a blocking course sits on the roadside to the southeast, with chamfered arrises and the house name inscribed on the lintel.