The Bird House, Normand Road, Dysart

Mid 19th century. Single storey, crowstepped cottage with stone bird finials. Stugged, squared and snecked rubble with dressed quoins. Base course. Shouldered openings, roll-moulded doorway; stone mullions and stop-chamfered arrises.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: owl-finialled recessed gable to right with coloured margins to part-glazed timber door; eagle-finialled advanced gable to left with canted quadripartite window below mutuled, pulvinated frieze and cornice, small window over in gablehead.

E ELEVATION: pigeon-finialled gable with square-headed bipartite window to left, flat-roofed modern extension to right

N ELEVATION: seagull-finialled gable, fenestration detail not visible.

W ELEVATION: advanced chimney breast at centre breaking eaves into stack, windows in flanking bays.

Plate glass glazing in modern timber windows; diamond-pattern leaded glazing to gablehead window at S. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with tall polygonal cans; ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS: ashlar-coped rubble boundary walls with inset railings; 2 pairs of pyramidal-coped square-section ashlar gatepiers; decorative cast-iron gates and railings.