Woodlands House, Markinch

Woodlands House is a large, two-storey house dated 1905. It is constructed with squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone, with ashlar dressings and droved quoins. A deep chamfered base course, a first-floor cill course, and a cavetto eaves cornice add detail to the exterior. Stone transoms and mullions are present throughout.

The house features a prominent five-sided corner tower. The north-west tower is tall, with a five-light window at ground level, featuring a pediment over the second and fourth lights. A further five-light window sits at the first floor, below a bellcast roof with a spike finial.

The north elevation, the principal facade, is three bays wide, with the five-sided tower extending to the outer right. An advanced bay to the right features a glazed oculus within a battered ashlar panel at ground level, complete with a moulded base and cornice, and a window above the first floor. Four steps lead to a two-leaf panelled timber door, set within a semicircular fanlight in a keystoned, round-headed doorcase. This doorcase features panelled pedestals and Ionic columns supporting an entablature, and a small balcony with stone balusters and ball finialled corner dies. A window is located above the door. A canted window with a blocking course sits below a bipartite window in the bay to the left.

The west elevation is similarly three bays wide, with the corner tower to the outer left. A window is centrally positioned at ground level, with another to the left. A canted window with a blocking course is located in the bay to the right. The first floor features a central window, a bipartite window to the right, and a pedimented date stone to the left.

The south elevation presents three irregular bays to the left and an advanced wing to the right. The centre bay contains a part-glazed timber door to the left and a small window to the right at ground level. Above this is a transomed stair window. The bay to the right displays irregular fenestration. A largely blank bay to the left has narrow windows on both floors, with a cellar door on the outer left adjacent to an abutting wall. The advanced wing to the outer right features a part-glazed timber door at centre, below a cat slide roof with rooflights and a metal stack. A return wall to the left includes a door at centre, a window to the left, and a painted panel to the right, with a further window to the left at the first floor, below a dropped eaves line.

The east elevation includes a recessed face to the right, with two windows to the left of centre at ground level, and a window above at the first floor. An advanced face incorporates a window to the left below a cat slide roof, a further window at centre, and a bipartite window to the right. Dormer-headed windows break the eaves on the first floor.

The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass glazing, and include coloured glass in the stair window and oculus. The roof is covered with graded grey slates. Architectural details include cavetto coped ashlar stacks with clay cans, some square, decorative terracotta ridge tiles and finials, exposed eaves, and cast iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

Boundary walls are constructed from squared and dressed rubble stone, incorporating ashlar quoins, scalloped details, coping, and ball finials. Semicircular coped rubble boundary walls are also present.

The interior features an entrance hall with a mosaic floor, a screen door with coloured and leaded glazing, and paired Ionic columns on a lozenge detail plinth. Fine decorative plasterwork cornicing, some timber fireplaces, and shutters are also present.