Holylee Lodge, Holylee House

Holylee Lodge, possibly designed by Robert Mathison, dates from the later 19th century and was built for the Ballantyne family. This single-storey, three-bay lodge is arranged in an L-plan and features picturesque elements such as barge-boarded bracketed eaves and a later flat-roofed addition at the rear. The exterior is constructed from coursed whinstone rubble sourced from local quarries, accented with polished dressings and rusticated vermiculated quoins. The windows are shouldered segmental arches with chamfered edges and slightly projecting margins.

On the south elevation, the central feature is an open timber porch with a projecting pitched canopy, a gabled end supported by decorative braced brackets, timber in-fill, and a wrought-iron apex finial. This porch is held up by heavy turned timber posts with diamond-patterned timber rails and plain timber support posts at the back. The doorway has slightly projecting polished margins and a panelled timber entrance door. Flanking the porch are bipartite segmental-arched windows, also with chamfered edges and polished margins.

The west elevation has a slightly projecting gable on the right side that includes a pair of tabbed windows and a blind gablehead with plain barge boards. To the left and center, there is a single-storey range featuring a bipartite window on the left and a single window on the right, all with tabbed dressings.

On the north elevation, there is a blind gable end with a later corrugated-iron and timber lean-to attached. The east elevation shows the gabled end of the lodge on the left, with a later flat-roofed harled extension set back in the re-entrant angle. Various corrugated-iron and timber lean-tos are attached to the right, concealing the original rear wall of the west elevation.

The windows are fitted with plate glass glazing in segmental-arched timber sash and case frames, while the later extension has modern glazing. The roof is pitched and covered with slate, featuring overhanging eaves, exposed shaped rafters, and plain bargeboards. It includes lead ridging, flashing, and valleys, along with painted cast-iron rainwater goods. Short square ashlar stacks, which are v-jointed with rock-faced rustication, are located at the outer ridges of the main elevation and the rear ridge, with projecting neck copes and fairly plain cans.