Juniperbank

Juniperbank is an 18th-century classical former farmhouse, restored in the late 18th and early 19th centuries with later additions. The main building is two storeys and three bays with a rectangular plan. An M-gabled wing extends to the rear, and a single-storey entrance porch was added later. A mid-20th-century sun lounge extends to the west. The walls are harled and painted with painted tabbed quoins and painted window margins; later extensions are harled and painted with red sandstone dressings. The roof is skew gabled with plain skews and putts, clad in piended grey slate with replacement metal ridging.

The north (principal, river-facing) elevation is a regularly fenestrated two-storey, three-bay façade. A large single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch projects forward, featuring a red sandstone-dressed door surround with tabbed quoins, roll-moulded arrises to the jambs, a two-leaf timber panelled door, and a red sandstone cornice. To the right sits a single-storey gabled sun lounge with tripartite windows to each return and an inset carved red sandstone coat of arms to the gablehead of the right return.

The west elevation shows the gabled end of the original farmhouse with the gabled end of the sun lounge to the left and centre at ground floor. A single-storey squared extension occupies the right, with a single window above it in the main farmhouse elevation. To the right is a two-storey, three-bay rear wing with paired windows to the left and a single window to the right at both ground and first floors. A single-storey outbuilding adjoins the ground floor angle.

The south (rear, road-facing) elevation displays a two-storey M-gable with a central timber entrance door (with 9-pane glazing to the upper half) and an aligned first-floor window. The rest of the elevation is blind and partly concealed at ground floor right by a later free-standing garage. A rubble wall adjoins to the right, leading to gatepiers.

The east elevation comprises the rear wing at left with four bays at ground floor and three bays (single window to left, paired windows to right) at first floor. The gabled end of the farmhouse occupies the right, with a later rectangular-plan flat-roofed projecting bay at ground floor left containing a bipartite window with a painted sill band and red sandstone cornice. A narrow window is positioned off-centre left at first floor; the rest of the elevation is blind.

Windows throughout are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing on the principal, east, and west elevations. The east elevation features a sash and case bay window with 6-panes to the upper sash and plate glass to the lower sash. A replacement multi-paned window with integral extractor fan is fitted to the ground floor left of the east elevation. The sun lounge and further extensions incorporate plate glass in timber sash and case windows and plain plate glass. Some 2-pane cast-iron Carron roof lights are installed. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods are present throughout.

Chimneys include short, squat, harled and painted gablehead stacks with red sandstone neck copes and hexagonal cans (to most) and similar roofline stacks to the M-gable.

Internally, the M-plan rear wing is regular with rooms flanking a central corridor. Timber skirting boards and some timber panelled doors are present.

The walled garden is near square-plan with a bowed north wall. The medium-height random rubble walls have segmental copes and are fitted with later timber gates, with the west wall bounding the driveway. A random rubble boundary wall with rough copes runs along the road elevation, flanked by a pair of tall cylindrical gatepiers of random local rubble, each with a projecting band course and rounded caps. Three similar gatepiers (now harled and painted) stand on the drive to the house, forming pedestrian and vehicle gates; all gates are replacements.