Former Stable Block, Dowhill

Simple, original 18th century 3-bay, 2-storey house still discernable from garden (N) elevation. Aggrandised in the earlier 19th century with the addition of large L-shaped multi-gabled wing wrapped around the N and E elevations creating a country house in the fashion of William Burn. Tooled sandstone with ashlar margins, droved ashlar to original house at rear. Tudor-Gothic hoodmoulds to window openings, predominantly multi-paned timber sash and case windows.

Pitched grey slate roofs with ashlar gabled dormer windows to garden elevation.

Paired and tripled square-plan ashlar stacks with polygonal decorated cans. Decorative 'gothic' cast-iron hoppers to rainwater goods.

Advanced crow-stepped gable to far left of principal S elevation with single storey portico set to re-entrant angle, timber entrance door with lying-pane glazing to upper section, geometric fanlight. Further 2-storey gabled wing set aside with a succession of advanced single storey blocks; that to immediate right with a shaped gable and heraldic shield set within, further block with crow-stepped gables crowned by squat ashlar crucifix to gable end. 1st floor windows breaking eaves with gabled ashlar pediments to E elevation. Garden elevation; large canted window at ground to gabled wing. Original house to centre; ashlar doorpiece; square-plan columns supporting gabled pediment, door similar to that of principal elevation, ornamental buttress to left rising to above 1st floor level. Single storey wing to left with similar buttress to left rising to below eaves. Late 20th century conservatory to far left.

L-plan former stable and office block to W of house; random rubble with slate pitched roof. N range converted to domestic use, W still functioning as outbuildings. Adjoining rubble wall with lean-to outbuildings enclosing site to S, cobblestones to forecourt.

Ha-Ha; random rubble dry stone dyke running to N, W and S of formal gardens.

Gate Piers; low rounded ashlar piers with hemi-spherical caps situated close to B9097.