Heriot House, Heriot

Heriot House, located in Heriot, is a late 18th century building with 19th century alterations. It is a single storey and attic former coaching house, designed in an L-plan with outhouses. The structure is made of whitewashed sandstone rubble with painted dressings.

On the southwest elevation, there is a 3-bay house on the outer right side, accompanied by a lower range to the left. The 3-bay house features an advanced piend-roofed porch in the central bay, which includes a window and a doorway to the right return, a panelled door, and single windows flanking the porch on both sides. Above the porch, there are canted dormers. The lower range has an irregular arrangement of openings.

The southeast elevation has a single window that is offset to the right at ground level. The northeast elevation displays an irregular size and distribution of openings, with a canted dormer on the lower range to the right and 4-pane sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are corniced brick gablehead stacks with octagonal cans.

Inside, the hall features a decorative tiled floor, a decorative cast-iron balustrade with a timber handrail, and panelled doors and shutters with reeded architraves. There is also a plain timber chimneypiece.

The outhouses and former stables consist of a lower single storey range with a corrugated asbestos roof that adjoins the house. There are also 2-storey rectangular-plan stables located to the southwest of the house, constructed from rubble sandstone with a grey slate roof and terracotta ventilators. The stables have a segmental cart-arch made of brick voussoirs, a timber lintel over the doorway, and a rounded northeast angle at ground level. The loft is accessed from the southwest, and the stables are built on a sloping site. Inside the stables, there are timber piers, a trevise, and a heck.