Huntlyburn House

Huntlyburn House is a roughly L-shaped house, dating from circa 1810, with significant additions made by John Smith of Darnick in 1818, 1824, 1844, and 1854. Later additions and alterations occurred in the late 20th century. The original house is a 6-bay, 2-storey and attic structure with a crowstepped gable centrally. An 1824, 2-bay section with a piend roof and balconied windows adjoins the original house at the northeast corner, facing east. A 3-bay addition was built in 1854, adjoining the original house to the east, with a flat-roofed stairwell set in a re-entrant angle with the 1824 wing. The original building is constructed of neatly coursed rubble, the east elevation of roughly coursed rubble, while the front of the 1854 wing features sandstone ashlar, with red sandstone ashlar dressings used throughout. There is an eaves course, projecting window cills, long and short quoins, window margins, and regular fenestration.

The south (principal) elevation features a timber panelled front door with sidelights and arched fanlight, set within a slightly advanced, chamfered, corniced architrave to the left bay of the 1854 wing. The original 3-bay house is to the left, featuring an advanced central crowstepped gable with a corniced window in what was formerly the doorway and an arched window to the gable apex flanked by blind side-lights. Regular fenestration is present in the bays, with an 1854 tripartite window at ground level to the right. Piend-roofed dormers light the attic space.

The east elevation presents a stepped composition, with an advanced single-bay 1854 wing to the left and a flat-roofed stairwell at the centre, containing a tall window and a chamfered corner. A recessed 2-bay 1824 wing sits to the right, featuring cast-iron balconies to the first-floor windows.

The west and north elevations have irregular fenestration. A piend-roofed outshot is located to the left on the west side, behind a copped screen wall at ground level, and there is a wallhead stack. The north elevation exhibits fairly regular fenestration to the original house, with 19th and 20th century single-storey additions at ground level.

Most windows have 12 panes in timber sash and case frames. Corniced stacks are topped with red clay cans, and the roof is covered with graded grey slate. The interior has been largely modernised, but retains some cornicing and shutters. A curved stone staircase is present, with a decorative cast-iron baluster and a mahogany handrail.

To the southeast of the house is a walled garden with brick-lined, ashlar-coped random rubble walls, open to the southeast. A 2-storey, 4-bay, piend-roofed cottage is located in the west wall, with irregular fenestration on the west side and three blocked doorways at ground level. The remains of an L-plan stable block, modernised with 20th-century openings and random rubble construction with sandstone dressings and a slate roof, are also present. It has a single-storey and attic gabled wing to the east with a former hayloft opening and a single-storey, piend-roofed wing to the north. A sandstone mounting block lies to the south of the stables. A U-plan former double cottage with forward-facing gables and a piend roof to the rear incorporates late 20th-century porches in re-entrant angles, with rubble walls to the gables, sandstone dressings, and rendered sides and rear.