The Braw Bothy, Eccles House

The Braw Bothy is an earlier 19th-century stable block with later additions and alterations, forming part of Eccles House. The main building is a 2-storey, 8-bay rectangular structure with a central square-plan clock tower. Flanking wings (The Braw Bothy to the right and Stablegate Cottage to the left) were originally single-storey but were later raised to 2 storeys. Single-storey ancillary structures stand to the south-east.

The exterior walls are built in harl-pointed tooled sandstone rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings. The flanking wings have dry-dashed upper floors. The building features a moulded eaves course, narrow strip quoins, and raised string courses to the flanking wings, with ashlar margins and flush window cills throughout.

On the south-east (entrance) elevation, the main block displays round-arched, keystoned carriage openings at ground level flanking the centre. The left opening has been infilled to form a window, while the right retains a boarded timber door. Above, boarded timber oval openings are aligned at first-floor level. The square-plan clock tower rises at centre, though its front clock face is missing. It has a louvred opening, dentilled eaves, and a weathervane. The bays to left and right contain variously positioned single windows at ground and first floors, with a louvred opening at first-floor level featuring pigeon holes and bracketed cills. A part-glazed boarded timber door and 2-leaf boarded timber garage doors occupy outer bays, with three further single windows at first-floor breaking the eaves line and fitted with lipped cornices. The 3-bay cottages recessed to either side have boarded timber doors at their centres, single windows in flanking bays at both floors, and bipartite windows in outer bays with gabled upper windows breaking the eaves.

The north-west (rear) elevation of the main block features a single-storey lean-to addition at centre with a part-ventilated bipartite window, beneath the aligned clock tower. The remaining bays are irregularly fenestrated. The 2-bay cottages recessed to either side have single windows at both floors in flanking bays, with gabled upper windows breaking the eaves, and single-storey lean-to porches in outer bays.

Windows throughout employ timber sash and case frames with 6-, 8-, and 15-pane glazing. The roof is covered in grey slate with timber bargeboards and a swept pyramidal slate cap to the clock tower. A corniced ridge stack rises above the central block, with coped ridge and apex stacks above the flanking wings, a coped wallhead stack at the rear, and circular metal cans for ventilation.

The interior of the stables, as seen during survey, comprises a vestibule with a setted floor and plain cornices. Boarded stable timber doors open from this space, and a square-plan hay-shoot is positioned centrally. The stables contain boarded timber stalls with a central division surmounted by continuous iron railings topped with ball finials. Original hay racks and troughs remain in place. The remainder of the interior was not seen at the time of survey in 1998.

A full-length cobbled path runs along the front of the building.

Single-storey ancillary structures to the south-east include a garage block to the left and a former game larder with an adjoining corrugated-iron sawmill to the right. These are built in harl-pointed rubble with tooled sandstone dressings, featuring boarded timber doors and timber sash and case windows beneath grey slate piended roofs with small rooflights. Interiors were not seen in 1998. A harl-pointed rubble wall fronts the site, with mono-pitched single-storey ancillary structures set behind.

The boundary comprises a tall rubble wall with battered coping enclosing the site in part. Low coped quadrant walls flank the courtyard entrance, with square-plan rusticated ashlar gatepiers topped by ball finials and a replacement gate. The garden entrance is flanked by rusticated ashlar gatepiers with ball finials and corniced caps, with 2-leaf boarded timber gates.