Castleview, Rosewell

Castleview is a late 19th-century house, built in 1879 to designs by Thomas Woods, with a later single-storey addition set into the angle to the southwest. It is a two-storey house with an attic, and has four bays, with a prominent gabled bay projecting forward. The exterior is characterised by vertically-stripped red and cream Whitehill brickwork, with decorative patterns on the northeast elevation, and polished sandstone dressings. Notable features include decorative pierced timber gableheads, a base course, deep overhanging eaves, and raised, V-channelled quoins to the corners.

The main (southeast) elevation has a slightly projecting, consoled and corniced doorpiece in the bay to the right of centre. Above the door is a rectangular panel containing a carved dog and the inscription "Memor et Fidelis". The door itself is timber-panelled and has a rectangular fanlight above. There is a window at first floor and a dormer window above. A slightly projecting, corniced window sits at ground level in the bay to the right, with a decorative ironwork parapet above the cornice. A single gabled window is positioned above at first floor. The projecting, gabled bay to the left of centre features a tripartite, canted window at ground level, a bipartite window at first floor, and a circular ashlar date plaque to the gablehead. A recessed bay to the outer left has a window at ground level to the re-entrant addition, and a window above it at first floor.

The rear (northwest) elevation is irregular, with four bays grouped as three and one, with a bay set back to the outer right. The three-bay group has a double gable, with a window at ground level in the central bay and a window above it at first floor. A full-height, three-tiered wallhead stack rises above the gable apex in the bay to the right of centre, adorned with an ashlar carved mask at first floor level. There is also a window at each floor to the gabled right return. A full-height, three-light canted window is found in the gabled bay to the outer left, with an ironwork parapet to the cornice between ground and first floors. The set-back gabled bay to the outer right has a part-glazed door at ground level to the left of centre, a single window to the right of centre, and an iron platt with railings incorporating steps. The right return has two windows at ground level and a single window at first floor with steps beneath.

The northeast elevation has a full-height, three-tiered wallhead stack centrally located, breaking the gable apex, and an ashlar carved mask at first floor level. It is flanked by two windows at attic level.

The gatepiers and boundary walls are constructed of polished ashlar, chamfered and square-plan with a string course to the top and segmental-arched caps. The brick walls have a rounded ashlar cope.