23 Main Street, Pathhead

23 Main Street in Pathhead is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay house designed in a T-plan with a two-storey rear section. The front features coursed, tooled rubble, while the sides are made of random rubble. The building has projecting long and short ashlar quoins, sandstone cills, and flush margins.

The southwest elevation is two-storey and three-bay, with projecting ashlar quoins on the right and flush rubble quoins on the left. There is a former door in the center flanked by windows, with a larger lintel over the right bay. The first floor has symmetrical windows, with the right bay showing cill movement.

On the southeast elevation, there is a blind gable to the left and an irregular rubble base course. The plain skews are complemented by a coursed ashlar chimney stack with a necking course and copes, featuring two mismatched cans. The right side has a two-storey section with irregular fenestration, including a door on the ground floor and two bays on the first floor. There is a roof light above on the left side, and a single-storey extension with a replacement pantile roof abuts this section.

The northeast elevation was not seen as of 2000. The northwest elevation has an entrance door with a blind gable above and plain skews. There is an attached timber pergola and a coursed ashlar stack with a neck course and copes, also featuring three mismatched cans.

The windows on the southwest elevation are 12-pane timber sash and case, while the southeast elevation includes 8-pane and 4-pane sash and case windows, as well as two single-pane fixed windows. A modern Velux roof light and zinc flashing are present on the two-storey section. The roof is piended with grey slate and has a zinc ridge, along with replacement PVCu rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen as of 2000.

The boundary wall consists of random rubble with shaped stone quoins at the top, leading to an ashlar entrance gateway. There is a plain iron gate and arrowhead railings.