Orchardcroft, 11 Quality Street, Dysart

Orchardcroft, located at 11 Quality Street in Dysart, is an early 18th-century merchant's house that underwent significant remodeling in the late 18th century. It was altered around 1900 and converted into a single house in the 1990s. The building is three stories tall, with a rectangular plan and five bays. It features harled walls with stone margins and a timber-architraved doorway that has a pulvinated frieze and cornice, which may have been constructed in the 20th century but reflects an 18th-century style.

On the southwest elevation facing West Quality Street, there is an architraved doorpiece with a deep-set timber door located in the bay to the right of center. To the right of this door are two windows, and to the left is a bipartite window, with three additional small windows further to the left on the ground floor. The first and second floors each have five regularly spaced windows.

The northwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, features a central bay with a wallhead gable, likely from the 1790s, and an advanced piend-roofed porch from around 1900. This porch has a decorative-astragalled, part-glazed timber door, a window above, and a blinded window in the gablehead. The flanking bays display asymmetrical fenestration, with the second-floor windows breaking the eaves into dormerheads, also from around 1900.

The windows primarily feature a 12-pane glazing pattern, all in timber sash and case style. The roof is covered with pantiles and has slate eaves easing courses. The harled stacks are topped with cans and thackstanes, and the skews are ashlar-coped.

Inside, the house contains some decorative plasterwork cornicing and roses, as well as a stone dog-leg stair. The principal rooms on the first floor at the front feature fine wood and composition fireplaces in the Adam style, along with a plainer mantel shelf that has a pulvinated frieze and Delft tile slips depicting various sports. There is also a decorative cast-iron fireplace complete with a fire basket.

Adjoining the house to the southwest is a single-storey, piended and slated rubble outbuilding that forms part of the boundary wall to the southeast. The boundary walls are made of coped rubble with stugged ashlar quadrants and feature pyramidal-coped square-section gatepiers.