Whareburn Cottage

Whareburn Cottage is an earlier 19th-century picturesque cottage that has been raised to include an attic in the late 19th or early 20th century. A single-storey porch was added in the late 20th century. The cottage has a rectangular plan and features three bays, with a single-storey lean-to addition at the rear. It is constructed from harl-pointed whinstone rubble, with stugged and polished sandstone dressings. The eaves are overhanging and bracketed with timber, and the gabled dormers have timber bargeboards and kingpost trusses. The building has stugged quoins and stugged long and short surrounds to its stop-chamfered openings. The windows feature stop-chamfered sandstone mullions in both bipartite and tripartite configurations, with projecting cills. The rear addition is harled, and there is a single-storey garage block to the east.

On the south elevation, the entrance features decorative iron hinges on a boarded timber door, which is centered at the ground level. To the outer right, there is a tripartite window at ground level, with a small bipartite light centered in the gabled dormer above. The outer left bay has a four-light canted window at ground level and a bipartite window centered in the gable above, which is corbelled out and breaks the eaves.

The east elevation shows blind bays on the original house. The lean-to addition is recessed to the outer right, featuring a part-glazed boarded timber door in the bay to the left and a bipartite window in the bay to the right.

The windows throughout the cottage include 2-pane lower sashes and 9- and 6-pane upper sashes in timber sash and case style. A single skylight is present on the front. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and features decorative terracotta ridging, along with cast-iron rainwater goods. The apex stacks are corniced and have been rebuilt in brick with circular cans.

The interior was not seen in 1997. The site is enclosed by dry rubble garden walls.