Giffen House

Giffen House is a Scottish Baronial style building designed by architect Andrew Heiton Jnr and dated 1869. It is constructed of stugged ashlar with polished dressings. The entrance elevation features two storeys over a raised basement and has an asymmetrical design. To the left, there is a door set in an advanced crow-stepped gabled bay, which has a roll moulded architrave and an angled head. Above the door, there are initials in a panel, with a rope-patterned string extending over small side lights. The first floor has a canted oriel window, and there is a tower located in the re-entrant angle, along with a corbelled bartizan on the south side.

The south-east garden elevation is nearly symmetrical, featuring outer advanced canted bays that are corbelled above the ground floor. The angles are detailed to resemble turrets, each topped with conical caps. A heavily bracketed balcony is present above the recessed ground floor windows. The tall tower on the north-east elevation adds to the building's character. The windows are primarily of the mullion and transom type, with those on the first floor having steeply gabled heads. All gabled bays are crowstepped, and the slate roof is adorned with fish-scale turrets.