St Mary's And Culblean, Main Street, Reston

This is an early to earlier 19th century semi-detached house, later extended and altered, situated on Main Street, Reston. The building is comprised of a 6-bay main section and two additional ranges, 'St Mary's Villa' (a 4-bay range to the right) and 'Culblean' (a 2-bay range to the left). The house is constructed of squared and snecked stugged red sandstone with cream sandstone dressings; the rear elevation is harled. A string course marks the floor level, and another defines the eaves. Droved quoins highlight the corners, and the window surrounds feature stugged long and short stones with droved margins and projecting cills. To the west stands a single-storey, rectangular-plan ancillary structure.

The south elevation, which serves as the main entrance front, displays a classical doorpiece, offset to the left of centre, with pilasters, a cornice, and a block pediment, framing a timber panelled door and a border-glazed fanlight. Tripartite windows flank the entrance at ground level (with narrower side lights), and a single window sits to the outer right. A single window is found in each bay at the first floor. 'Culblean' features a pedimented porch projecting to the right, containing a modern timber door and a border-glazed fanlight, with a single window at both ground and first floor to the outer left.

The north elevation, at the rear, includes a large, round-arched stair window within a full-height, gabled projection offset to the left of centre. A single-storey, lean-to addition sits in the re-entrant angle to the outer left, while a flat-roofed addition extends forward. A single window is centered at ground level in a full-height, gabled projection to the outer right, with a flat-roofed porch in the re-entrant angle to the left.

Modern glazing is present throughout. The roof is covered with grey slate, and brick-built ridge and apex stacks rise from the roof, topped with predominantly octagonal cans. The interior was not inspected in 1999.

The ancillary structure is a single-storey, rectangular-plan block, with a later addition to the north. It is built of predominantly sandstone and whinstone rubble with cream sandstone dressings, and includes a brick-built addition. The west elevation has a modern garage door offset to the left of centre, a boarded timber door to the left, a three-bay cottage to the outer right with single windows flanking a central porch, and a two-bay range to the left with a boarded timber door to the right and a modern garage door to the outer left. The south (side) elevation shows a gable end with an enlarged window at ground level, along with modern windows. A grey slate roof is topped with stone-coped skews and rooflights. The interior was not inspected in 1999.

Low, coped rubble boundary walls delineate the front and spaces between the properties, topped with iron railings featuring fleur-de-lys finials. Octagonal-plan sandstone gate piers with shallow octagonal caps flank a pedestrian entrance to 'St Mary's Villa, with an iron gate also adorned with fleur-de-lys finials. A pyramidal-capped, square-plan sandstone pier stands to the east. Similar gate piers, also pyramidal-capped and square in plan, mark the pedestrian and vehicular entrances to ‘Culblean', with an iron pedestrian gate and a modern timber vehicular gate.