The Roan Including Cottage And Walled Garden

Early to mid 19th century with later additions (see Notes). Symmetrical, 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan house with piend roof and double co-axial ridge stacks. Free-stone rubble with red sandstone dressings. Droved quoins; raised stone cills. Banded cill course at 1st floor. Steps to timber panelled door with large rectangular margin-paned astragalled fanlight above and astragalled sliding sash side lights. Large window above doorway with stone mullioned side lights, scroll-bracketed cornice and blocking course over. Piend-roof single-storey former boiler room with tall ridge stack engaged at NW corner angle. 2-storey additions to rear set slightly lower than the main body of the house.

Lying-pane glazing to timber sash and case windows. Grey slate. Clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Plan altered slightly during 20th century, retaining symmetrical arrangement of principal rooms. Large flagstones to hall. Fine cantilevered stone staircase with veneered timber handrail and cast-iron balusters. Some ornamental ceiling roses and cornice work. Symmetrical arrangement continues at 1st floor with opposing shallow-arched recesses with double timber doors leading to principal bedrooms.

COTTAGE: George Mackie Watson, dated 1938. Single-storey, gabled cottage with garage forming Z-plan arrangement. Rubble with sandstone dressings. Raised margins. Coped skews and shouldered skewputts. Round windows to N and S gable ends with obelisk finials to apexes. Timber doors to garage. Cobbled forecourt.

Multi-pane glazing to timber sash and case windows. Grey slate. Ridge stack and tall wallhead stack to rear. Clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

WALLED GARDEN: wedge-shaped, rubble walled garden located to W of house; piend-roofed potting shed to NW corner of site.