Bonnybridge, Bonnyside Road, Bonnyside House

Mid-19th century with later 19th century additions. 2-storey L-plan harled house with central kitchen wing projecting to rear; single storey brick laundry wing adjoining far left of rear elevation; detached 1 ½ storey harled former stable block (converted to garage and stores) to NE of house. Painted ashlar base course. Predominantly regular fenestration; predominantly projecting painted stone cills.

FRONT (W) ELEVATION: slightly advanced single bay gable to left with tripartite window to ground floor and bipartite window to 1st floor; raised shield-shaped plaque above(may once have carried date or initials). To re-entrant angle, single storey gabled porch (gable facing S) with 2-leaf timber-boarded door with 2-pane fanlight. 2-bay central section; to far right, slightly recessed single bay section with lower ridge level than sections to left (see Notes).

REAR (E) ELEVATION: to left, 2 bay section with single storey laundry wing projecting to far left (see below). To centre, projecting gabled kitchen wing with out-of character glazed and brick porch to gable end. To right, 2-bay gabled section.

SIDE (N) ELEVATION: blind elevation. To N elevation of laundry wing, 7 bays with windows to 1st and 3rd bays from left and timber-boarded doors to remainder.

SIDE (S) ELEVATION: to left, predominantly blind 2-storey gable end with timber door to ground floor with small window to right; to right, rear wall of laundry wing with door to left and brick and timber-framed lean-to greenhouse to right.

GLAZING etc: predominantly timber sash and case windows with 4, 6 or 8 panes, some border glazed. Pitched diminishing course slate roofs, stone skews, shaped skewputts, stone finial to gable apex to front elevation. Corniced gable head stacks (shouldered to N gable) with octagonal and circular cans; 3 corniced ridge stacks with octagonal cans to laundry wing. Cast-iron rainwater goods including moulded rhones.

INTERIOR: geometric floor tiles to porch. Good plasterwork to 3 public rooms; plain plasterwork to other rooms; grey marble chimneypiece to 1st floor drawing room.

FORMER STABLES: to W gable, large opening with garage door to ground floor, timber-boarded opening above. To S elevation, 2 windows with timber door to right; dormer opening to roof.

WALLED GARDEN: rectangular plan; low brick wall with rounded terracotta copes; to W wall, dwarf wall surmounted by brick piers.