Velvet Hall Cottage, Glenormiston House

1874 for William Chambers. 1'-storey, 3-bay, L-plan picturesque cottage with gabled porch. Harled and painted random rubble, sandstone window dressings with smooth margins and chamfered arrises; door similarly treated with haunched shoulders. Exposed rafters and plain barge boards.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: to left of centre, pitched entrance porch: steps leading to sandstone margined door surround with haunched shoulders and boarded timber door, blind returns to porch; left of elevation blind; to right, pair of regularly placed rectangular windows. To attic, pair of set-back piended canted dormers with larger windows to front and canted side lights flanking porch roof; stack aligned with centre of porch roof.

S ELEVATION: plain gable end with 3-light bay window to centre, date stone (1874 within moulded surround) inset near gable, overhanging eaves with plain barge boarding and timber braced gable.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled end with fairly regular fenestration and door on left return.

N ELEVATION: plain gable end with small door to centre left, overhanging eaves with plain barge boarding and timber braced gable.

Mostly 8-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; 3-pane dormers with 2-pane canted sidelights, all in timber sashes and cases. Pitched purple slate roof with lead ridging and flashing. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods. Harled stack with smooth sandstone angle margins and moulded neck cope, pair of mismatched cans.

INTERIOR: not seen, 2002 but in residential use.