Swindridge Muir

Swindridge Muir is a classical house, likely designed by architect David Hamilton, built around 1815. It stands two storeys over a basement, with an attic and features a three-bay façade. The exterior is constructed of droved ashlar stone with polished margins and a channelled basement. It has giant clasping pilasters at all corners and a central door set in a shallow advanced bay, which is accessed by a broad splayed flight of steps adorned with delicate cast-iron railing. The entrance is flanked by two pairs of Ionic columns that support an entablature. There is a cill course at the ground floor, and all windows have moulded architraves and rosettes, with the ground floor windows being corniced. The house features 12-pane sash windows throughout and a mutule cornice with a blocking course, which is raised over the central bay and end pilasters. There are also two small later dormers and boldly grouped central stacks beneath a piended slate roof.

Inside, the entrance hall showcases a good plaster cornice and an enriched ceiling, with a Roman Doric screen separating the hall from the stair compartment. The staircase is fitted with simply detailed cast-iron balusters, and there is an oval cupola above featuring Vitruvian Scroll decoration at its base. The interior retains characteristic period details, including reeded architraves and some original chimneypieces.