Westwood House, Houndwood

Westwood House, located in Houndwood, is an early 19th century building that has undergone later additions and alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay plain classical house, which was formerly a Free Church manse, featuring a two-storey wing at the rear and a single-storey, two-bay addition to the side. The exterior is finished with coursed, whitewashed harl and painted dressings, including narrow quoin strips, painted margins, and projecting cills. There is also a single-storey ancillary structure to the northeast.

The southwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, has steps with plain iron balustrades leading up to a part-glazed timber panelled door that is centrally located on the ground floor. This door is topped by a 2-pane fanlight and is surrounded by a plain ashlar frame with a consoled cornice. Flanking the entrance are single windows on the ground floor, and there are single windows in all bays on the first floor. To the left, the single-storey addition features a part-glazed timber door and a single window.

On the southeast elevation, the principal block is to the left, with a part-glazed timber door on the ground floor to the right and a 3-pane fanlight above it. There is a single window aligned above on the first floor. To the right, a full-height wing is recessed and includes a lean-to porch at the ground level, with single windows in both flanking bays.

The building predominantly features 12-pane modern windows and rooflights. It has a grey slate roof with stone-coped skews at the rear, and the roof is topped with coped apex stacks and circular flues.

The interior was not seen in 1999.

The ancillary structure is a harl-pointed rubble gig-house, which is a single-storey rectangular-plan block with a single-storey projection to the outer right, forming an L-plan. The southwest elevation has a two-leaf boarded timber garage door on the outer left and a small window in the projecting wing to the outer right. This structure has a pantiled roof, and its interior was also not seen in 1999.

The boundary walls and gatepiers consist of coped rubble walls that partially enclose the site. There are square-plan, stop-chamfered gatepiers flanking the pedestrian entrance to the west, which have finialled caps, although the gate is missing. Additionally, there are square-plan gatepiers flanking the vehicular entrance to the east, featuring corniced, pyramidal caps, with the gate also missing.