Dolphinston House And Outbuildings

Dolphinston House is an early 19th century farmhouse, significantly reworked and extended over time. It is a two-story, three-bay T-plan building, with harled walls contrasted by long and short ashlar dressings, and first-floor windows set beneath the eaves.

The north (front) elevation is symmetrical and three bays wide. A corniced, flat-roofed ashlar porch projects from the center, featuring a tripartite window; a flush-panelled door is situated on the return to the left. Tripartite windows are present in the flanking bays, and single windows light the first floor.

The east elevation has an advanced gabled bay with a tripartite window at ground level. The south elevation displays lower, two-story gabled additions projecting from the center, extending three bays deep. An additional outer bay is lower with irregular glazing. Lean-to additions are symmetrically placed within the angles formed by the main house and lean-to doors face East and West; a modern lean-to porch addition is located on the west side. The first floor windows are set into each outer bay of the principal block. The west elevation features an advanced gabled bay with a ground-floor window to the right.

The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case style. The roof is covered in grey slates, with ashlar coped skews and corniced, dressed ashlar apex stacks.

The interior was noted in 1992.

Outbuildings are situated to the south, comprising a single-story, four-bay gabled roughcast range with a pair of boarded doors centrally placed; a further freestanding, piend-roofed bay is set to the left. A quadrangular range of altered farm buildings also lies to the south.

A harled coped boundary wall extends to the west, punctuated by a pair of square gatepiers.