Rowantree Butts, Kirk Brae

Rowantree Butts is a late 19th-century, two-storey villa with an attic, built in 1869. It is characterized by a symmetrical, square plan and classical architectural style, accompanied by a three-bay, single-storey kitchen range extending to the rear, a detached coach house, and later greenhouses. The main front features a corniced, pedimented entrance portico supported by Ionic columns and recessed pilasters. Double-height, corniced, quadripartite canted windows are positioned on either side of a central arched window, while large, pedimented square dormers top the roof. Overhanging bracketed eaves contribute to the villa's design. The exterior is constructed of stugged coursed ashlar, with part-droved quoins and margins, and includes a base course and a band course to the front elevation. Timber sash and case windows are present, with four panes on the sides and twelve panes at the rear, complemented by an arched, margined stair window. A panelled timber door is topped with a fanlight, while boarded doors serve the rear. The roof is slate, with a flat lead section, corniced, shouldered eaves stacks, cast-iron downpipes, gutter brackets, and plastic gutters. The kitchen range has a pitched slate roof, a stone skew with a gableted skewputt.

The interior retains a good late 19th-century decorative scheme and layout, with grandly proportioned principal rooms largely unchanged. A timber glazed inner porch features a geometric tiled floor, while decorative cornices and marble fireplaces are found in the principal rooms. A timber panelled cloakroom on the ground floor includes a marble-topped basin and an ornate toilet cubicle with geometric floor and wall tiling, and a stained-glass window. The original kitchen retains a carved timber glazed fitted dresser.

The single and two-storey, four-bay coach house has wide, double boarded doors, a rectangular eaves breaking dormer, and a plain east-facing elevation. It's constructed from rough coursed sandstone with droved margins, and includes a six-pane over one-pane timber sash and case window and a six-pane window to the dormer, all under a slate roof with stone skews and a shouldered corniced eaves stack with an octagonal can. A former gate linking the coach house to the kitchen range has been removed.

A circa 1915 brick and timber glazed greenhouse, facing south, connects perpendicularly to the coach house, with a later brick boiler forming a re-entrant angle.

The boundary is defined by a rubble wall with half-round copes to the east. Wrought iron railings run along the north and east sides, with cast-iron gate pillars and wide gates to the north leading to a steeply sloping track toward the Mill areas of Wilderhaugh Street. A neat, square-plan summerhouse with a piended roof, double part-glazed doors, felt roof, and six-over-two-pane timber sash and case windows is also present.