Walled Garden, Cardrona Mains

Cardrona Mains is a farmhouse dating to 1816, with additions circa 1840 and later alterations. The original core is a two-storey, three-bay farmhouse to which a two-storey, single-bay extension has been added to the east. The farmhouse is harled, with black painted stone window surrounds; the extension is similarly treated and features canted ashlar sandstone bay windows to the ground floor. An early 19th century rubble icehouse is also present.

The south elevation displays the original regularly fenestrated farmhouse to the left and centre. A later canted window with an advanced base course and moulded cornice is on the ground floor to the left, while the main entrance is now centrally located on the ground floor, framed by ashlar margins and a bracketed console, over a multi-pane fanlight. Regular windows have painted margins in all other bays. To the right is a slightly advanced two-storey, single-bay, piended extension, with a canted window mirroring the style of the earlier addition and a tripartite window with painted stone margins and narrow flanking lights on the first floor. A random rubble driveway wall with rough-hewn coping and a pair of square ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps runs along the left side.

The west elevation shows the blind gable of the main house rising to a gablehead stack. A near-square later two-storey, two-bay extension sits centrally, with a large window to the ground floor left, a small slit window to the right and a pair of medium-sized rectangular windows to the first floor. A blind end of a single-storey block is visible to the left. The north and east elevations were not inspected in 2002.

Timber sash and case windows with 12-pane glazing are found in the original fenestration. Later bay windows and the single-storey extension have 2, 3, and 4-pane glazing, separated by very thin astragals; some rear windows have been replaced. The pitched slate roof has replacement roll-ridging (slates run to the edges of the gableheads), with a piended roof to the 1840 extension. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods are installed. Harled and painted gablehead stacks have ashlar neck copes and a variety of cans, though the eastern gablehead stack now forms part of the roofline due to a later extension.

The interior was not inspected in 2002.

The early 19th century icehouse, contemporaneous with the farm, features a single chamber with a barrel-vaulted random whinstone rubble structure and a round-headed gable framed by vertically set sections of whinstone. The entrance, which is not original, is on the south side. The other elevations are turfed and overgrown.