Gillingshill

Gillingshill is a house designed and built for Matthew Forster Conolly, probably in 1834. It is a two-storey and attic, three-bay house that was later extended to the north and east in a Z-plan configuration during the 19th century, with alterations made in 1911 by architect Sir Robert Lorimer. The original house and the similarly detailed two-bay west elevation of the north wing are constructed from pinned whin rubble with contrasting long and short ashlar dressings, while the remainder of the building is harled.

On the south elevation, the original house features a central door and three gabled wall-head dormers with finials, and it has 12-pane sash windows throughout. The deeply recessed bay of the addition to the right includes a 16-pane window on both the ground and first floors, as well as a tripartite dormer with a bell cast roof. There is a low modern addition in the re-entrant angle that has a tall 30-pane stair window in the west wall above. The house has end and axial stacks and slate roofs.

Inside, there is an ornate chimney piece in the drawing room designed in an 18th-century style, simple plasterwork, and cast-iron stair balusters.