Logierait Poorhouse

Logierait Poorhouse, designed by James Campbell Walker in 1864, is a three-storey, eight-bay building with a symmetrical, near rectangular plan. It is constructed from rubble sandstone with contrasting bull-faced dressings, featuring distinctive long and short surrounds and quoins, as well as overhanging bracketed timber eaves.

On the south elevation, the building has eight bays with advanced gabled bays at the outer left and right, which include later lean-to sun lounges at ground level. The first and second floors have bipartite windows, and there are louvred openings set in the gableheads. Doorways with side windows are located at the ground level in the penultimate bays on the outer left and right, with single windows above. The remaining bays have regularly spaced single windows. A wallhead gable is present over the central two bays, featuring a bell set between the windows on the second floor and a carved plaque set in the gablehead.

The north elevation consists of ten bays with regularly spaced windows. Steps lead up to a doorway at the first floor in the penultimate bay on the outer left, which has a panelled door and a six-pane fanlight. The ground floor doorway is offset to the right below.

The east elevation has three bays, with a modern advanced central tower featuring a lean-to roof. There is a single-storey, piend-roofed wing in the bay to the right, and single windows are present on all floors in the bay to the left.

On the west elevation, there are three bays with a central gabled bay that includes a modern flat-roofed addition at the ground and first floors, with a single window above. A single-storey, piend-roofed wing is located in the bay to the left, and single windows are found on all floors in the bay to the right.

The building features twelve-pane timber sash and case windows, grey slate pitched roofs, broad gablehead stacks, two stacks on the north pitch, a later full-height rendered chimney on the north elevation, and a brick stack on the west elevation, along with cast iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the interior has a very plain decorative treatment, including a run of enamel sinks and heated drying cabinets on tracks from around 1900.

The property is also accompanied by corniced gatepiers and coped rubble boundary walls.