The Bird House, Normand Road, Dysart

The Bird House on Normand Road in Dysart is a mid-19th century single-storey cottage featuring crow-stepped gables and stone bird finials. The structure is built from stugged, squared, and snecked rubble with dressed quoins and a base course. It has shouldered openings, a roll-moulded doorway, stone mullions, and stop-chamfered arrises.

On the south elevation, there is an owl-finialled recessed gable to the right, which includes a part-glazed timber door with colored margins. To the left, an eagle-finialled advanced gable features a canted quadripartite window below a mutulated, pulvinated frieze and cornice, with a small window above in the gablehead.

The east elevation displays a pigeon-finialled gable with a square-headed bipartite window on the left and a flat-roofed modern extension to the right. The north elevation has a seagull-finialled gable, but the fenestration detail is not visible. The west elevation features an advanced chimney breast at the center that breaks the eaves into a stack, with windows in the flanking bays.

The cottage has plate glass glazing in modern timber windows, while the gablehead window on the south side features diamond-pattern leaded glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks with tall polygonal cans, as well as ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts.

The property is enclosed by boundary walls made of ashlar-coped rubble, which include inset railings. There are two pairs of pyramidal-coped square-section ashlar gatepiers, along with decorative cast-iron gates and railings.