The Birks, North Bank Dykes, Errol

The Birks is an early 19th century house with mid 19th century alterations, featuring two storeys and an attic in an L-plan layout. It has a classical design with a stone porch and is constructed from squared and coursed rubble, accented by dressed ashlar quoins and painted margins.

On the northeast elevation, there is a window in the flat-roofed porch, which has a blocking course and a panelled timber door to the left of the centre bay at ground level. The flanking bays contain windows, and there is regular fenestration on the first floor. To the outer left, a slightly recessed single-storey bay has a dormer-headed window to the right and set-back timber openings to the left.

The northwest elevation features a gabled bay to the left of centre with a window to the right on the first floor. There is a later full-height canted bay to the right, which includes tripartite windows on each floor.

The southwest elevation presents a broad gabled front with a tiny window to the right at ground level and another window above it.

On the southeast elevation, a dominant gabled bay to the right has a tiny attic window, while a small window is located close to the ground on the return to the left. A satellite dish is positioned on a recessed bay.

The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane and plate glass glazing patterns. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks topped with thackstanes and polygonal cans, as well as ashlar-coped skews.

Inside, the house features a part-glazed interior door, plain cornices, architraved doors, timber fireplaces, and a dog-leg staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters.

There is also a single-storey ancillary building made of slated rubble with a casement window. The property is enclosed by coped rubble boundary walls that include decorative ironwork gates.