Suspension Bridge, Cumledge Burn, Cumledge

Cumledge is a mid-18th century house with later alterations and additions, including work dated 1834 to the rear. It is a two-storey, five-bay classical house accompanied by crowstepped pavilions set back on either side. The main house is constructed of droved ashlar with polished ashlar dressings, while the flanking pavilions are of squared and snecked sandstone. A base course, band course between floors, and eaves course define the exterior.

The symmetrical south-east elevation features a five-bay arrangement with the flanking pavilions. A canted single-storey porch is centrally located, featuring a deep-set panelled door with ornamental glazing and a rectangular fanlight. The outer bays are also canted and piended, incorporating tall, narrow round-arched niches to their angled elevations, with windows to each floor facing south-east. Segmental arches, now blinded, are above windows in the gableheads of the pavilions, aligning with the rear elevation. A cruciform ashlar finial adorns the north-east pavilion.

The north-west (rear) elevation has a stair window centrally located, with a date stone (1834) above and a flat-roofed, line-rendered addition at ground level. A two-leaf door is situated to the outer left of the central three-bay group, accompanied by a diamond-paned rectangular fanlight. The outer bays are advanced on this elevation. A monopitch addition with a screen wall extends to the outer left, with a blank section on the ground floor and a window above.

The north-east pavilion has a four-bay south-west elevation with first-floor windows breaking the eaves. A window is located at ground floor in the bay to the inner left, while a segmentally-arched opening with a two-leaf boarded door is in the bay to the inner right. A boarded door is to the outer left, and a modern part-glazed door is to the outer right. A later boarded addition extends from the outer right at first floor, supported on metal girder stilts. A later single-storey monopitch addition is present on the north-east elevation.

The south-west pavilion features a blinded window at ground and first floor on the bay to the right of the north-east elevation. Boarded later additions are present to the centre and left of centre. Windows are present in each of the four bays of the south-west elevation, except for the bay to the inner right, which has a two-leaf boarded door.

The windows throughout are 12-pane timber sash and case. The central three bays have a piend and platformed slate roof. Rendered stacks are present.

Inside, shutters remain in place. Canted frontages are found in the ground floor rooms of both the north-east and south-west pavilions. A cast-iron ornamental balustrade lines the stone stairs, with a timber handrail.

A vehicular suspension bridge, constructed of concrete in 1953, spans the grounds. It is characterised by battered pylons with flat coping, a shaped arch-tie, and metal rope stays.

A U-plan rubble court of varying dates, largely containing stables, a granary, and later uses as pig sties, lies to the west of the house. Additional buildings include a single-storey, rectangular-plan rubble and timber shed to the north-west of the court, and two single-storey cottages, one later raised to two storeys, located to the south-east across the Burn, and another to the south-west near the road. Chamfered gatepiers with pyramidal capping mark the entrance.