Pencaitland House, Easter Pencaitland

Pencaitland House, located in Easter Pencaitland, was built in the late 17th century for James Hamilton, Lord Pencaitland. It is one of a mirrored pair of two-storey, L-plan pavilions, with the other pavilion having been destroyed by fire in 1876. The exterior features white painted harling with ashlar dressings, chamfered arrises, and generous eaves, along with unusual angle blocks.

The northeast elevation has four irregularly spaced bays with a variety of narrow and small windows, and a door that is off-centre to the left. The southeast elevation is four bays wide and includes two linked depressed carriage arches on the outer left, a wide window on the outer right (which may have been a former door), and four first-floor windows. There is a later wallhead stack with set-offs. A stairblock is located in the re-entrant angle to the west, featuring a stair window, and there is a lean-to rubble outbuilding attached at ground level, behind a rubble quadrant wall with ashlar coping.

The northwest elevation has two bays, with a window in each bay on both floors. The southwest elevation is mostly blank, with a single first-floor window at the centre. The windows are sash and case with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The harled stacks have ashlar set-offs or shoulders and cornices, while the roofs are covered with grey slates, featuring piend roofs with swept eaves and lead flashings.

The outbuilding, which may have been a stable, has a rectangular plan and is situated on rising ground at the roadside, extending to the east and west. It is constructed of rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings. The west end elevation is canted with a window at the centre, and the south elevation has three square openings in the upper part, set to the right, along with a walled stack and a lamp bracket to the left. The north elevation features a rectangular projection on the outer right and a wide door at the re-entrant angle, with another doorway to the outer left under a lean-to addition. The outbuilding has a pantiled piend roof.

There are retaining walls made of rubble that connect to the outbuilding and extend northward, linking with another circular outbuilding. The gates and gatepiers consist of a wrought-iron pair of gates with railings, a scroll pattern, and simple arrowheads leading into the driveway, along with a simpler wrought-iron pedestrian gate on the right. The gatepiers are squared sandstone with recessed panels, ashlar caps, and coping that leads to deep buttresses to the west and adjoining walls. The gates are not original, nor were the earlier gates. Pencaitland House is situated to the east of Pencaitland House.