Velvet Hall Cottage, Glenormiston House

Velvet Hall Cottage, built in 1874 for William Chambers, is a single-storey, three-bay, L-plan picturesque cottage. It features a gabled porch and is constructed from harled and painted random rubble, with sandstone window dressings that have smooth margins and chamfered arrises. The door is similarly styled, with haunched shoulders. The cottage has exposed rafters and plain barge boards.

On the east elevation, there is a pitched entrance porch to the left of centre, with steps leading up to a sandstone-margined door surround featuring haunched shoulders and a boarded timber door. The porch has blind returns. To the left of this elevation, there is a blind section, while to the right, there are a pair of regularly placed rectangular windows. Above, there are two set-back piended canted dormers with larger windows at the front and canted side lights flanking the porch roof. A chimney stack is aligned with the centre of the porch roof.

The south elevation has a plain gable end with a three-light bay window in the centre. A date stone from 1874 is inset near the gable, and the eaves overhang with plain barge boarding and a timber-braced gable.

The west (rear) elevation features a gabled end with fairly regular fenestration and a door on the left return. The north elevation is a plain gable end with a small door located to the centre left, also with overhanging eaves and plain barge boarding, along with a timber-braced gable.

Most of the windows are 8-pane timber sash and case, while the dormers have 3-pane windows with 2-pane canted sidelights, all in timber sashes and cases. The roof is pitched and covered with purple slate, featuring lead ridging and flashing. The rainwater goods are painted cast iron. The chimney stack is harled with smooth sandstone angle margins and a moulded neck cope, topped with a pair of mismatched cans.

The interior was not seen in 2002 but is noted to be in residential use.