Brucefield House

Brucefield House is a later 18th-century house, extended in the early 19th century and subsequently altered, consisting of a 2-storey main block with basement (in the original section) arranged in a U-plan and now subdivided, with a single-storey north wing. The original section features a stair tower to the rear (east).

The principal (west) elevation is of nine bays. The original three-bay section occupies the left portion. The entrance, positioned right of centre, is approached by steps and has an early to earlier 19th-century architrave with flanking attached Doric columns supporting an entablature, with a replacement panelled timber door and rectangular fanlight. Fenestration is symmetrical, with windows above the entrance and one to each floor in the flanking bays; those to the left bay are not architraved. The later addition to the right divides into two symmetrical regularly-fenestrated three-bay sections: the centre section has full floor-height windows to the first floor, while the right section has an entrance with a replacement part-glazed timber door and rectangular fanlight.

The building is harled with painted ashlar dressings (droved except to the original section and rear of the main block). Base course and eaves course are present except to the original section. Vertical margins define the arrises. Openings are architraved except to the original section, where some remain unframed. The original section has coped gables with beaked skewputts.

The east elevation shows the main block set back at the centre, with a single bay of the original section visible to the right, containing windows to each floor (the taller lower window probably inserted). A tall semicircular-plan stair tower stands to the right, obscured at lower level by a single-storey extension; it has a window at its apex and one at lower level to the right return, with two windows to the outer right of the first floor set back. A later addition occupies the left portion. A late 20th-century single-storey lean-to addition with central entrance has flanking windows set back (the right window has been infilled), two windows to the first floor, a small circular panel between them, and a small window to the outer left. The wing gable ends project to either side; the eaves band continues across the left gable. The right return has regularly disposed windows with two to each floor, while the right return shows a regular three-bay fenestration with the left first-floor window infilled and the centre ground-floor window narrow with an entrance to the left (replacement part-glazed timber door) and a mullioned bipartite window to the right. A small late 20th-century flat-roofed addition with entrance projects to the gable end of the single-storey wing to the right, with a pair of inserted windows and an entrance with a replacement panelled timber door to the outer left.

The north elevation has the gable end of the original section to the right, with three basement windows and a pair of outer flanking ground-floor windows. A single-storey wing adjoins to the left. An entrance with a late 20th-century part-glazed porch stands to the right, with a replacement part-glazed timber door and rectangular fanlight, flanked by three irregularly disposed windows to the left.

The south elevation comprises four bays with regular fenestration to the outer flanking bays and a first-floor window only to the bay left of centre. A later lean-to with catslide roof and painted margins and window surrounds has been added to the right; it features a round-arched stair window to the centre, a small window below to the right, an architraved entrance with cornice and timber door to the right return, and a small window above.

Various windows have been replaced, consisting mainly of two-pane timber sash and case or fixed frames with top hoppers. The roof is of grey slate. Stacks include gablehead stacks with band courses to either side of the original section, a truncated gablehead stack to the single-storey wing, and a ridge stack with band course to the main block, all harled. The south wing has a pair of coped finely coursed sandstone ridge stacks (one at the gablehead) with round cans.

The interior, only partially inspected in 1999, is largely altered and modernised.