House, Durie Vale, Windygates

This building is a house located in Durie Vale, Windygates, dating from the late 18th to early 19th century, with later extensions added in the 19th century. It is a two-storey structure with an attic and features three bays, along with a tall single-storey addition. The exterior is constructed from cherry caulked dark whinstone rubble, random rubble, harl, and dry dash, accented with contrasting ashlar sandstone dressings, rusticated ashlar quoins, and quoin strips on the addition. An eaves course and stone mullions are also present.

On the south elevation, the entrance features a glazed door with decorative astragals set in a corniced doorway, which is adorned with decorative consoles and a fluted frieze. To the right of the entrance is a window, and to the left is a flat-roofed canted window. The first floor has three regular windows positioned close to the eaves. A slightly advanced single-storey extension is located to the outer right, featuring a canted window.

The north elevation has a projecting gable on the left with a window at ground floor level. There is an altered door on the return to the right, which is behind a modern conservatory. To the right, there is a lower two-storey extension in the re-entrant angle, with windows on both floors and a wide altered glazed door on the recessed face to the right. A single-storey extension is also present to the left.

The east elevation features a blank gable of the extension to the left, with a recessed face that includes a blinded window to the right of centre at ground level and a window to the outer right. The first floor has two windows. The west elevation has a window on the left at both floors.

The building has timber sash and case windows with 4, 8, and 12 pane glazing patterns, and a casement window is located on the east elevation at the first floor left. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks, which are shouldered on the extension, along with clay cans, some of which are decorative. The ashlar coped skews feature scrolled skewputts and thackstanes.

Inside, the building includes plain and decorative cornicing. Additionally, there is a rubble boundary wall that has been altered at the top.