Holylee Lodge, Holylee House

Possibly Robert Mathison (see notes), later 19th century for the Ballantyne family. Single storey, 3-bay, L-plan picturesque lodge with barge-boarded bracketed eaves and later flat-roofed rear addition. Coursed whinstone rubble from local quarries with polished dressings and rusticated vermiculated quoins. Shouldered segmental-arched windows with chamfered arrises and slightly projecting margins.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: to centre, open timber porch comprising projecting pitched canopy, gabled end with decorative braced brackets, timber in-fill and wrought-iron apex finial; supported by heavy turned timber posts with diamond-patterned timber rails and plain timber support posts to rear; doorway with slightly projecting polished margins and panelled timber entrance door. To flanks, bipartite segmental-arched windows with chamfered arrises and polished margins.

W ELEVATION: slightly projecting gable to right with pair of tabbed windows and blind gablehead with plain barge boards. To left and centre, single storey range with bipartite window to left and single window to right, all with tabbed dressings.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: blind gable end with later corrugated-iron and timber lean-to adjoining.

E ELEVATION: gabled end of lodge to left with later flat-roofed harled extension recessed in re-entrant angle; various corrugated-iron and timber lean-tos adjoining to right and concealing original rear wall of W elevation.

Plate glass glazing in segmental-arched timber sash and case windows; modern glazing to later extension. Pitched slate roof with overhanging eaves, exposed shaped rafters and plain bargeboards; lead ridging, flashing and valleys. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods. Short square ashlar stacks (v-jointed with rock-faced rustication) to outer ridges of main elevation and rear ridge, projecting neck copes with fairly plain cans.