Billiemains Farmhouse

Billiemains Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in 1847, possibly incorporating earlier elements, with later additions and alterations. It is a symmetrical, 2-storey, 3-bay plain classical structure with a lower, 2-storey wing at the rear, forming an L-shape, and a further single-storey wing to the northeast. The exterior is constructed from harl-pointed, squared, and snecked tooled red rubble sandstone, with sandstone ashlar dressings. The rear wings and elevations are dry-dashed with red sandstone dressings. Notable features include a raised base course, a moulded eaves course, droved quoins, and droved long and short surrounds to openings, as well as projecting cills.

On the south elevation, there is a step leading to a timber panelled door at the center of the ground floor, which has an original fanlight above. This door is framed by a pilastered and corniced surround topped with a block pediment. There is a single window aligned above on the first floor, with single windows in both flanking bays at both floors.

The west side elevation features the main 2-bay house with single windows in both bays at both floors, although the first-floor opening to the right is blocked. The lower 2-storey, 2-bay wing is recessed to the left and has a part-glazed timber door in the outer left bay, with a single window above and single windows at both floors in the bay to the right.

The north rear elevation has a 2-storey gabled wing projecting to the right, with a single-storey range recessed to the left that includes a part-glazed door to the outer right and a single window in the left bay. The main house is connected behind with a round-arched stair window centered on the first floor.

On the east side, the main 2-bay house has single windows in both bays at the ground floor and a single window at the first floor in the bay to the right. The single-storey addition is recessed to the right and features a single window offset to the left of center.

The windows predominantly feature 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case style, with some later additions having plate glass. The roof is covered with grey slate and has stone-coped skews, along with cast-iron rainwater goods. There are tapering brick-built apex stacks on the east and west sides, topped with octagonal cans.

The interior was not seen in 1998. The boundary walls are made of rubble-coped, heavily-pointed rubble and partially enclose the site. There are square coping stones on the low quadrant walls flanking the main entrance to the northeast, along with timber railings and a timber vehicular gate.