House Of Daviot

House of Daviot is a 2-storey and attic mansion built between 1815 and 1820, situated over a raised basement. The house features an east-facing facade with three wide, symmetrical bays, highlighted by pronounced canted outer bays flanking the entrance. It is constructed from coursed, tooled, mixed pink and grey granite rubble, with contrasting tooled and polished sandstone ashlar dressings.

The central entrance is marked by a painted ashlar Roman Doric columned portico, which supports a rectangular fanlight with decorative radial glazing above a nine-panel door. This entrance is approached by a splayed flight of steps that over-sail the raised basement, complete with an original decorative cast-iron handrail. An ashlar bandcourse encircles the building between the raised basement and ground floor, aligning with the steps.

The ground floor features large windows, with three in the canted bays flanking the entrance; the front window is blind but glazed. The first floor has tripartite windows in the canted bays, with blind side lights. The return gables and rear of the house exhibit regular fenestration, although some alterations and likely excavation have occurred, opening up the basement approach. A garage door has been added in the basement, and a northwest raised ground floor window is obscured by a corrugated iron covered way that connects to a later single-storey corrugated iron extension on a rubble base.

The roof includes a small piended dormer at the front and two on each side, featuring multi-pane glazing, with moulded eaves cornices and a blocking course at the front wallhead. The piended platform slate roof is topped with a pair of long corniced ashlar flue batteries at the center.

Inside, the house boasts panelled dados, window shutters, and doors in all principal ground floor rooms, along with moulded door pieces, decorative plaster cornices, and central plaster roses. A reeded wood chimneypiece is located in the public room to the right of the entrance hall. A cantilevered staircase rises full height at the center rear of the house, featuring cast-iron balusters with palmette detailing and a polished wooden handrail.