Garden House, 9 The Old Orchard, Limekilns

Garden House, located at 9 The Old Orchard in Limekilns, is an 18th-century rectangular-plan house with later alterations. It features a single storey with an attic on the western section and two storeys with an attic on the eastern section. The exterior is harled, with dressed stone surrounds to the openings.

The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a symmetrical three-bay left section. It includes a central replacement plank door set within a slightly advanced porch, featuring a moulded stone doorway and cornice. Above the porch is a carved stone with a fluted frieze and a centerpiece depicting a human head, a spade, a sickle, and a rake. The ground floor has flanking windows, and there are two gabled dormer windows breaking the eaves, each with stugged stone surrounds and coping. The right section has irregularly placed fenestration, with two ground floor and two first floor windows, as well as a modern flat-roofed dormer that is wholly integrated into the roof.

The west elevation has a ground floor window on the left. The north elevation features a central ground floor window flanked by two small windows. There is a replacement first floor window to the left and a small first floor window to the right. The east elevation has a replacement door on the right and an attic window above.

The interior was not seen in 2000. The house has replacement fenestration, including four-pane timber sash and case windows with horns. There are rooflights and 19th-century dormer windows at the front, as well as a rooflight at the rear. The pitched roof is covered with fishscale tiles and features crowstepped skews at the gables and between the eastern and western sections of the house, along with moulded skewputts. There are gable apex stacks and a ridge stack, with the right gable and ridge stack being corniced and circular cans.

Additionally, there is a single-storey outhouse situated close to the western gable of the house. It is constructed of sandstone rubble and has replacement timber double doors to the east, a blocked door to the south, a plain gable with a chimney to the west, and a window to the north. The outhouse has a modern red tiled pitched roof and is used as a garage.