Gate Piers, Spencerfield House

Spencerfield House is a late 16th to early 17th century laird's house of rectangular plan, originally three bays wide, with a staircase tower to the north. A single-bay addition to the east was constructed in the 17th century, extending the house to four bays. Later, between the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Georgian alterations enlarged the windows and altered the floor heights, creating a piano nobile. A two-storey extension was added to the northwest angle in the 20th century.

The house is built of harled rubble with stone cills, and painted margins highlight the window openings. The south elevation, the principal facade, is four bays wide, arranged generally three bays and one bay. On the ground floor, there is a window to the left, a part-glazed timber panel door to the left of center, a window to the right of the door, and a timber boarded door to the far left. Three large windows are on the first floor to the left, and a window is located to the outer right bay. Four windows are close to the eaves on the second floor, with the penultimate bay on the right slightly offset.

The east elevation features windows at each floor level; the ground and second floor windows were inserted after 1991. The north elevation showcases a full-height, central, piended, square-plan stair tower (with an elliptical plan internally), a first-floor window with a bolection-moulded door architrave (possibly re-set), a window above it, and a small square window to the left return. A 20th century two-storey, single-pitch extension is advanced to the right of the stair tower, with a second-floor window to the right of the stair tower above the modern extension. Remnants of single and two-storey former outbuildings are located to the left of the stair tower, with a central, low, timber-boarded door. The west elevation has a small central ground floor window, a first-floor window to the right, a 20th century two-storey extension to the left, and a modern shed in front of the 20th century addition.

The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is pitched, covered with grey slates, and features coped ashlar gablehead stacks. A ridge stack stands over the cross-wall dividing the easternmost bay from the original house; circular clay cans are visible.

Inside, surviving features from the late 16th to early 17th century include a kitchen in the westernmost cell at ground level, featuring a large arched fireplace recess that extends nearly the full depth of the plan, and a stone oven to the right. Deeply splayed reveals to windows and doors are a feature on the east side. A corner chimneypiece, dating from the mid to late 17th or early 18th century, is located on the ground floor; it is currently covered by a modern gas fire. The internal ashlar and timber staircase has moulded bowtell risers and is slightly later, likely from the mid-18th century, with a former door entry to the first-floor landing. Second-floor bedrooms retain late 18th to early 19th century Georgian shutters and fielded panelling.

Gatepiers dating from the late 18th to early 19th century consist of square-plan piers with shallow pyramid caps, and a coped random rubble boundary wall is located to the west.