Burnhouse

Burnhouse is a Classical country house built around 1810, featuring two storeys, a basement, and an attic in an L-plan layout. The house has five bays, with the central three bays slightly advanced and topped with a pediment. A Tuscan doorpiece is accessed by tapering steps that overhang the basement. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked whinstone rubble, accented with pale sandstone ashlar dressings. It has raised cills and in-and-out quoins, along with ground and first-floor bandcourses, a projecting eaves cornice, and a narrow blocking course. The outer bays have rusticated quoins, while the break front features tabbed quoins. The windows are regularly spaced, with projecting cills and raised tabbed margins. A cast-iron balustrade adorns the stair, and the entrance includes a timber panelled door with sidelights and a fanlight set within an engaged Tuscan architrave. A roundel is positioned at the center of the pediment.

On the rear (north) elevation, there is a Venetian stair window at the center and a full-height wing added in 1862 to the right, which forms part of the L-plan with upper floors that are canted at the re-entrant angle. There is also a single-storey pitched-roof out-shot at ground level. The house features 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof that is platformed and piended, and later dormer windows in the garret. Broad co-axial stacks and a small coped stack are located behind the pediment apex, with tall clay cans.

Additionally, there is a conical-roofed potting shed with a round-arched window, dentiled eaves, and grey slates situated at the east corner of a tear-shaped walled garden.