Mount Esk, 11 Kevock Road, Lasswade

Mount Esk is a later 18th-century house of two storeys with later alterations and additions, situated at 11 Kevock Road, Lasswade. The main house is a three-bay structure of plain classical design, originally symmetrical, with a balustraded parapet. It features a semi-circular bow window to the left and a two-storey single-bay bowed addition to the west. Later additions include a garage to the south and extensions to the rear (northeast) elevation.

The principal (southwest) elevation is arranged in five bays, grouped 1-3-1. The centrepiece is an architraved doorpiece with a small carved heraldic panel above, featuring a deep-set timber panelled door with lattice fanlight and a window at first floor level above. The bow window to the left of centre has three lights at ground floor with a window above, while the outer left features a set-back individually roofed bowed bay with windows at each floor. Windows occupy each floor in the bay to the right, with a flat-roofed garage addition to the outer right.

The rear (northeast) elevation is irregular in arrangement, with five bays grouped 3-1-1. An advanced single-storey addition spans three bays of the original block to the left, each with windows, and a window to the left return. Above these, aligned windows at first floor level occupy each bay of the original block. A two-storey single-bay addition to the right features windows at each floor and a timber panelled door with fanlight set near the re-entrant angle. The outer right bay contains windows at each floor, similarly positioned near the re-entrant angle.

The building is constructed of stugged sandstone ashlar with sandstone rubble to side and rear elevations. Details include raised droved margins to windows, a polished ashlar door architrave and parapet, base course, blocking course to the bow window, eaves course and cornice, and parapet punctuated by small incised panels. Strip quoins are used throughout.

Windows are 15-, 12- and 2-pane timber sash and case. The roof to the original block is grey slate with a piended pitch behind the parapet. The bower addition has a piended slate roof, while rear additions and the garage have flat roofs. Ashlar coped wallhead stacks with octagonal cans are positioned to the southeast and northwest of the original block and to the northwest of the bowed addition. Cast-iron rainwater goods are employed throughout.

The gatepiers are of chamfered square plan, constructed from sandstone ashlar with geometrically shaped caps. Wrought-iron replacement gates accompany sandstone rubble boundary walls with curved ashlar cope. A squared ashlar gateway to the southeast of the house features a cornice, blocking course and raised central panel.

A small rectangular-plan gable-ended rubble outbuilding stands to the south of the main house, with a lean-to brick addition to its north end. It features a boarded door and window to the front with a window to the addition, a grey slate roof with skylight, rendered gablehead stacks to each end with coped skews, and replacement uPVC gutters.

The former stables, situated to the north of the main house, comprise a single-storey structure with hay loft, arranged as a three-bay stable block with a single-storey single-bay addition to the left and a lean-to bay to the right. Construction is of squared and snecked cream sandstone rubble with droved long and short surrounds to openings and droved quoins. An ashlar coped stack stands to the southwest, and the roof is grey slate piended with cast-iron rainwater goods.

The principal (southeast) elevation of the stables shows a window at ground floor in the centre bay, with a boarded loft door above. An advanced later doorway with boarded door (one missing) is at ground floor in the right bay, and boarded doors occupy the left bay and outer left. The interior comprises a square-plan cart shed to the left, two stalls with boarded divisions to the left, and a timber stair to the hayloft with exposed rafters and fireplace to the southwest.

The house appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1854.