Johnscleugh

Johnscleugh is a mid-17th century laird's house with later alterations, featuring a two-storey rectangular plan that is substantial and unusual in form. It is situated on a steep incline and constructed from whinstone rubble, rounded at the corners, with some ashlar dressings. The building has a variety of small, irregularly spaced windows.

On the southeast elevation, there is a later squat conical slate-roofed stair projection added off-centre to the right, which has a blocked outline of a former first-floor window evident behind it, along with a window inserted in the stairwell. At the base of the stair turret, there is a doorway, and to the right of this door, a 19th-century stone mullioned bipartite window. The first floor features two 19th-century windows under the eaves at the centre, with a smaller window in the outer left bay, similar to those on the north elevation. There is evidence of a blocked opening below, and a late-origin wallhead stack flanks the left side, along with two additional first-floor windows. A lean-to greenhouse has been added at ground level to the outer left.

The northeast elevation is largely blank, featuring a low doorway to a vaulted chamber off-centre to the right, and a narrow window inserted in a blocked former archway at the centre on the ground level. There are also two small first-floor windows. The steading abuts the house at the north corner.

The east elevation has a steeply pitched roof with a massive wallhead stack and a small first-floor window to the left. The west elevation is blank, with a small first-floor window to the left and a wallhead stack that is more modest in proportion than that on the east gable.

The building showcases a variety of glazing patterns, primarily 4-pane sash and case windows. It has grey slate roofing and ashlar coping to the skews and stacks.

Inside, the walls are particularly thick, and the original layout included two barrel-vaulted chambers at ground level, with one still retained. There may be an ingleneuk at the first floor on the east end.

Adjoined to the north of the house are U-plan single-storey outbuildings made from rubble whinstone, which were thatched until 1972 and currently have corrugated roofing.