Seggie House

This is a large, two-story Italianate villa, likely dating from circa 1860 to 1870 and attributed to Andrew Heiton Junior. It is situated within a courtyard plan and incorporates a three-stage square tower. The villa is constructed from coursed, droved sandstone ashlar with raised quoins, and features a base course, band course, advanced gables, overhanging eaves, and classical detailing. There is a variety of window openings, including bipartite and tripartite designs, some with keystoned segmental arches over the first-floor openings, a canted bay, and a square bay.

The west, or entrance, elevation comprises five bays, with an advanced, near-central entrance tower. The tower has a round-arched, four-panel timber door set within a roll-moulded and keystoned opening. Above the door is a consoled and ball-finialed balcony pierced with a St Andrew's cross motif. The tower's stages are separated by string courses, with the top stage featuring bipartite, round-arched windows, a consoled cornice, and a ball-finialed pierced balustrade. To the left of the tower are a pair of gabled bays, and to the right, two bays, the outer one gabled and slightly advanced.

The interior is of good quality, particularly the timberwork. Although few original chimney pieces remain, the interior has predominantly four-panel timber doors, working shutters, and good decorative classical plaster cornicework throughout the principal rooms. An entrance hall features a large, round-arched stone niche and a timber staircase with decorative balusters. A simple stained-glass stair window is present. The billiard room has a coombed strapwork ceiling, dado height timber panelling with an integral Ionic columned chimney piece. The tower room stair is boarded with decorative cast-iron balusters and a timber handrail, leading to an observation deck.

The roof is pitched and covered in grey slate. The windows are predominantly plate glass and four-pane timber sash and case windows, some with horns. Cast iron rainwater goods are present. The stacks are large, consoled, and corniced, topped with decorative clay cans.

A gate lodge, dating from circa 1900, is located nearby and has a distinctive, bowed three-light corner window with a conical slate roof. It is a single-story structure built from squared and snecked sandstone, with overhanging eaves and an advanced pitched roof entrance porch to the east elevation. It has timber sliding sash and case windows, predominantly with six-pane over two-pane glazing, though a twelve-pane over two-pane configuration is found in the bowed window. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there are gable stacks. Internally, the original room plan remains, featuring four-panel timber doors, some now part-glazed.

A walled garden, dating from the late to later 19th century, is also part of the property. It has a rectangular plan with rounded ends and is constructed in a Queen Anne style using red brick with flat sandstone coping. The entrance wall has curvilinear shaped gables and evenly spaced segmental headed gables. The south wall, at the entrance, is composed of a low squared and snecked sandstone wall with interlace hooped railings above, culminating in a central round-arched, keystoned and ball-finialled entrance. A heavily restored glasshouse is located on the south elevation of the north wall, and lean-to potting sheds are situated along the outer north wall, featuring predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows and boarded timber doors with a three-light glazed panel.