Summerhill With Ancillary Structure, Beanburn, Ayton

Circa 1870 with later additions and alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay, near L-plan gabled domestic gothic and Tudor-detailed house with lower 2-storey addition in rear re-entrant angle; various single storey additions. Coursed and tooled sandstone; sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course; corbelled eaves in part. Sandstone quoins; long and short surrounds to stop-chamfered openings; sandstone mullions; chamfered cills. Stylised hoodmoulds throughout. Single storey, near L-plan ancillary structure to NW.

NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: step to 2-leaf timber panelled door at ground off-set to right of centre; plate glass fanlight; stop-chamfered surround; hoodmould; modern bracketed canopy. Bipartite window centred at 1st floor; segmental-arched hoodmould with carved tympanum; circular opening centred in gablehead; surmounting apex stack. Bipartite windows at ground in bays flanking entrance; moulded lintels; hoodmoulds. Bipartite windows aligned at 1st floor with moulded triangular heads, blind circular openings centred in finialled gabled dormerheads breaking eaves above. Single storey addition to outer right.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: full-height gabled wing projecting to outer right with tripartite window centred at ground; moulded lintels; hoodmould. Bipartite window aligned at 1st floor; moulded lintel; segmental-arched hoodmould with carved tympanum; circular opening centred in surmounting gable. Bipartite window in single storey projection in re-entrant angle to left; narrow, pointed-arched window aligned above. Bipartite window at ground in bay to outer left; moulded lintels; hoodmould. Bipartite window aligned at 1st floor with moulded triangular heads, decorative sandstone balcony to front, blind circular opening centred in finialled gabled dormerhead breaking eaves above.

NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: full-height gabled wing projecting to outer left with single storey addition at ground; bipartite window at 1st floor off-set to left of centre; blind circular opening centred in apex beneath surmounting stack. Full-height block recessed to right with various single and 2-storey additions to front.

Predominantly plate glass windows in timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; stone-coped skews; moulded skewputts with engaged columns clasping corners below. Corniced sandstone apex stacks; circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods (supported by sandstone corbels at eaves).

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

ANCILLARY STRUCTURE: single storey. Heavily-pointed sandstone rubble; red brick in part. Boarded timber doors. Grey slate roof; brick-built ridge stack with single circular can. INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

BOUNDARY WALL: coped rubble wall partially enclosing site.