The Roan Including Cottage And Walled Garden

The Roan, including a cottage and walled garden, is an early to mid 19th century house with later additions. It is a symmetrical, two-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan building featuring a piend roof and double co-axial ridge stacks. The exterior is constructed of free-stone rubble with red sandstone dressings, including droved quoins and raised stone cills. There is a banded cill course at the first floor level. Access is via steps leading to a timber panelled door, which is topped by a large rectangular margin-paned fanlight and flanked by astragalled sliding sash side lights. Above the doorway, there is a large window with stone mullioned side lights, a scroll-bracketed cornice, and a blocking course. A piend-roof single-storey former boiler room with a tall ridge stack is engaged at the northwest corner. The rear of the house features two-storey additions that are slightly lower than the main structure.

The interior has been slightly altered during the 20th century but maintains a symmetrical arrangement of the principal rooms. The hall features large flagstones, and there is a fine cantilevered stone staircase with a veneered timber handrail and cast-iron balusters. Some ornamental ceiling roses and cornice work are present. The first floor continues the symmetrical layout with opposing shallow-arched recesses that have double timber doors leading to the principal bedrooms.

The cottage, designed by George Mackie Watson and dated 1938, is a single-storey gabled structure with a garage, forming a Z-plan arrangement. It is built of rubble with sandstone dressings and has raised margins, coped skews, and shouldered skewputts. Round windows are located on the north and south gable ends, topped with obelisk finials. There are timber doors leading to the garage, and the forecourt is cobbled. The cottage features multi-pane glazing in its timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, a ridge stack, and a tall wallhead stack at the rear, along with clay cans and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The walled garden is wedge-shaped and constructed of rubble, located to the west of the house, and includes a piend-roofed potting shed in the northwest corner of the site.