Bewlie House

Bewlie House is a neo-Georgian country house incorporating influences of the Modern Movement, likely designed by G Elwes and built between 1937 and 1938. The house is two storeys with a U-plan, accompanied by a two-storey service wing and a sympathetic addition from the 1960s. It is constructed of concrete, featuring minimalist detailing, sash windows with 12 panes at the ground floor and 18 panes at the first floor, and steeply pitched grey slated French roofs. The roofs are piended over the main blocks and curved and swept over the polygonal end bays.

The south-facing garden elevation features a three-bay main block with taller ground-floor windows. Dormer-headed windows break the eaves of projecting wings and are present on the outer return elevations. The blind three-bay returns (southwest and southeast) include a pair of roundels at the wallhead; the inner roundel is a glazed porthole window, the outer is blind, and a small pedestal sits at the base of the rim. The wallhead rises as a plain parapet above the eaves, featuring a concrete blocking course and wallhead stacks on the polygonal bays.

Projecting polygonal bays are accentuated by dormer-headed windows that break deep cavetto eaves. Rhone pipes are carried idiosyncratically across the eaves in front of the first-floor windows. The east and west elevations are two bays, with a single-storey semi-circular addition constructed in 1960, mirroring the style of the main house and featuring 18-pane sash windows.

The north-facing entrance elevation is a five-bay main block with single-storey and first-floor dormer-headed windows breaking the eaves. A three-bay centrepiece breaks the plain concrete parapet, and the entrance is situated within a canted bay. A door is flanked by a multi-paned stair window above, with blind flanks. The centre stair window features 25 panes (9 and 15), while 18-pane windows flank the centrepiece, and regular 12-pane sash windows occupy the outer bays. A service court to the left forms an L-shaped entrance court. The interior of the house has not been inspected.

Terrace walls are present to the northwest and south, incorporating a stone balustrade and dies. A gateway is located to the northeast. Garden walls and an entrance to the south, likely dating to the early 19th century and predating Bewlie House, were reconstructed during the 1960s. These include reused 19th-century cast-iron urn finials, decorative wrought-iron gates with an overthrow quadrant, and walls built of grey whin rubble, heightened with rendered red sandstone, likely during the 1960s, centrally positioned to the north of the house.