Burnbrae

Burnbrae is a dated 1792 farmhouse, originally single-storey and three-bayed, which was altered and heightened to two storeys in 1826. A skewputt on the west gable bears the date 1826. The building has boulder footings, a ground floor of random rubble, and a first floor of more regular stugged and snecked rubble, with droved ashlar dressings, including droved tails and an ashlar eaves band (though the latter is partially obscured by a modern plastic roof covering). It is topped by a pitched slated roof with a modern replacement zinc ridge, ashlar skews and skewputts, and ashlar end stacks.

The farmhouse presents a symmetrical facade with regular openings. The ground-floor windows are smaller than those on the first floor, with wide chamfered arrises to the window margins. The first-floor windows have droved ashlar margins without chamfering. The windows are timber sash and case, with moulded horns and a 12-pane glazing pattern to the front and sides, which were reinstated in 1995. The kitchen and bathroom have 9-pane windows, while a large rear stair window, dating from circa 1826, features a 4-pane sash and case. In the rear wing, some earlier, possibly 18th-century, moulded sash frames remain, but with sawn-off astragals and later plate glass glazing. The central entrance has a four-panel door, likely from 1826, set within a simple doorpiece, with a plain rectangular fanlight above a marriage lintel inscribed "17 JB MG 92".

The west gable has a single ground-floor window which was blocked with brick at an early date, probably around 1826, and retains early 18th-century shutters within. The east gable features a single window at both ground and first floor levels. The north (rear) elevation has a large central stair window between floors, plus single windows to the left at ground floor and to the right at first floor. To the right of the ground floor is a 19th-century single-storey rear wing, originally comprising kitchen spaces within two rooms – a scullery and a larder/milk house – with a broad bay on plan and a half-piend slated roof.

The interior features a lower ceiling height in the earlier ground-floor rooms, with joinery work primarily dating from the 1826 remodelling, including moulded doorpieces, cornices, and white-painted timber chimney-pieces. Some 18th-century fragments remain, including shutters to the west gable window and 6-panelled doors. A flagged floor is found in the entrance hall, alongside a plain stair balustrade. One room (“E room”) has two recesses on the north wall, originally intended for box beds, while another (“W room”) features an original chimney-piece. On the first floor, most interior features from 1826 survive, including cornices, shutters, doorpieces, and panelled doors with raised mouldings.

A single-storey rubble and pantile outbuilding, used as a dairy, stands to the north of the main house. It retains original fixed timber glazing on the rear (north) and east elevations—a central timber mullion dividing four vertically-arranged lying panes on either side. The south elevation of the dairy has three doors and a single window, altered circa 1920s. A low coped rubble wall fronts the house to the south, and a walled garden is enclosed by coped rubble walls on three sides to the east of the house.