Service Wing, Stirkoke House

Stirkoke House is a large Baronial mansion designed by David Bryce, dated 1858 and 1859, which may include parts of an earlier house. The building is constructed of coursed grey rubble with contrasting tooled ashlar dressings. It has two storeys and an attic over a raised basement, featuring an asymmetrical and gabled design. The main entrance is located in the raised basement on the northeast elevation, while the southwest garden front has an entrance accessed by a flight of steps leading to a door on the raised ground floor. This entrance features a moulded doorpiece with a monogram above and a studded door in a projecting gabled bay, which is defined by a stepped string course that continues across the northeast front above the raised basement.

The house includes an angle turret that is corbelled at the ground floor on the northeast side, and corbelled bartizans at the southeast and northwest corners, each topped with a bellcast slated conical roof with a finial. A canted window rises to full height into a corbelled gable on the southeast elevation, and there are diminutive attic windows and gabletted dormers with varied multi-pane glazing patterns. The building features dated rainwater goods, coped ridges and end stacks, and slate roofs.

Inside, there is a large wooden staircase with barley-sugar twist balusters, various original chimney pieces, decorative plaster ceiling cornices, moulded door pieces, and panelled doors.

Adjoining the house is a service range, and to the west, it is linked to an earlier 19th-century two-storey, six-bay former stable and carriage house range, all built of rubble with tooled dressings. The outer paired bays of this range are gabled with segmental-headed carriage entrances that have been blocked and replaced with paired windows. Two gabletted dormers break the wallhead in the centre, featuring 12- and lying-pane glazing, crowsteps, coped ridges and end stacks, and a slate roof.