Pencaitland House, Easter Pencaitland

James Hamilton, Lord Pencaitland, late 17th century. One of mirrored pair of 2-storey, l-plan pavilions to Pencaitland House (destroyed by fire in 1876). White painted harling with ashlar dressings; chamfered arrises; generous eaves. Unusual angle blocks. NE elevation: 4 irregulary spaced bays with variety of narrow and small windows; door off-centre to left. SE elevation: 4-bay. 2 linked depressed carriage arches to outer left, currently; wide window to outer right (former door?); 4 1st floor windows. Later wallhead stack with set-offs. Stairblock in re-entrant angle to W with stair window; lean-to rubble outbuilding adjoined at ground, behind rubble quadrant wall, ashlar coped. NW elevation: 2-bay; window to each bay at each floor. SW elevation: blank, with single 1st floor window at centre. 12-pane glazing pattern in sash and case windows. Harled stacks with ashlar set-offs or shoulders and cornices. Grey slates to piend roofs with swept eaves and lead flashings. Outbuilding: rectangular plan former stable (?), sited on rising ground, at roadside, continuing to E and W. Rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings. W end elevation canted with window at centre. S elevation with 3 square openings in upper part, set to right, and walled stack. Lamp bracket to left. N elevation with rectangular projection at outer right, and with wide door by re-entrant angle; further doorway to outer left, under lean-to-addition. Pantiled piend roof. Retaining walls: rubble walls adjoined to outbuilding, running N, and linking with further outbuilding, circular in plan, before running further N. Gates and gatepiers: wrought-iron pair of gates, comprised of railings, scroll pattern and simple arrowheads, into driveway; pedestrian gate, again in wrought-iron, in simpler form at right. 2 squared sandstone gatepiers with recessed panels, ashlar caps and coping to deep buttresses to W and to adjoining walls. Gates not original nor were earlier gates (see notes). Sited to E of Penkaet House.