Gate Piers, Geanies House

Geanies House is an H-plan mansion that dates from the earlier to mid-18th century, with some parts built around 1830. The building is mainly two storeys high and features harled walls with ashlar margins. The west garden front is constructed of coursed pinned rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The entrance front is U-shaped and has a two-storey crow-stepped wing on the east, which is dated 1742. This wing is connected to a similar wing by a three-storey, four-bay block from the mid to later 18th century, along with a Roman Doric colonnade built around 1825. The first floor has large windows, while the second floor has smaller ones, and the roof is piended.

The long west-facing garden elevation consists of various builds, including two two-storey, three-bay blocks and a large projecting bowed and crenellated extension for the drawing room and dining room, which dates from around 1800. This extension features round-headed, key-stoned windows on the first floor and a glazed door at the centre of the ground floor.

The house has multi-pane glazing, with later glazing in the colonnade. The entrance block has eaves and lintel bands, corniced ridges, and end stacks, all topped with slate roofs and ridge finials.

Inside, the drawing room facing west has a swagged decorative plaster cornice, a panelled chair rail, and a marble fireplace. There is also fine plaster work in the stairwell and the drawing room located in the mid-18th century section of the house.

The garden walls, dated 1781, are made of high harl pointed rubble with ashlar copes. The gate piers, built in the earlier 19th century, are square and chamfered in ashlar with moulded copes topped by stone balls that bear diminutive obelisk finials. Similar end piers are connected by low squared rubble quadrants with ashlar copes.