Burnhouse

Circa 1810. 2-storey, basement and attic, 5-bay, L-plan Classical country house with slightly advanced pedimented central 3 bays. Tuscan doorpiece reached by tapering steps over-sailing basement. Squared and snecked whinstone rubble with pale sandstone ashlar dressings. Raised cills and in-and-out quoins. Ground and 1st floor bandcourses; projecting eaves cornice; narrow blocking course. Rusticated quoins to outer bays; tabbed quoins to break front; regular fenestration with projecting cills and raised tabbed margins. Cast-iron balustrade to stair. Timber panelled door with sidelights and fanlight in engaged Tuscan architrave. Roundel to centre of pediment. Rear (N) elevation with Venetian stair window to centre; full-height wing (1862) to right forming L-plan with upper floors canted at re-entrant angle. Further single storey pitched-roof out-shot to ground.

12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slate to platformed, piended roof. Later dormer windows to garret. Broad co-axial stacks. Small coped stack behind pediment apex. Tall clay cans.

Conical-roofed potting shed with round-arched window, dentiled eaves and grey slates to E corner of tear-shaped walled garden.