Bankhead House

Mid 19th century. 2-storey and single storey, 3-bay, crowstepped former farmhouse. Coursed and random rubble, rendered to W; droved ashlar quoins and raised quoin strips. Eaves course: hoodmoulds, chamfered arrises and stone mullions.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3 steps up to deep-set timber door with 2-pane fanlight in doorway with moulded brackets and canopy at centre, hoodmoulded bipartite window in bay to left and further window above to each bay; advanced gable to right of centre with canted window at ground, hoodmoulded window at 1st floor and blinded arrow slit in gablehead.

E ELEVATION: window in bay to right of centre at ground and to outer bays at 1st floor, gablet at centre with tall stack. Single storey bay with window to outer right.

N ELEVATION: advanced L-plan, single storey wing with asymmetrical fenestration and door in re-entrant angle.

W ELEVATION: 2 small windows in bay to left at ground and further window at 1st floor, single storey bay to outer left with 2 windows.

Modern glazing throughout. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks, that to E with polygonal cans; ashlar coped skews and moulded skewputts.

INTERIOR: winding staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters and timber handrail.

OUTBUILDING: crowstepped and pantiled, rectangular-plan rubble outbuilding. S elevation with door to left of centre, bipartite window beyond and segmental-headed cart-arch with 2-leaf boarded timber door to outer left; 3 narrow windows to right of centre. Bipartite window to W.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: pyramidal-coped square ashlar gatepiers and coped rubble boundary walls, some with semicircular coping.