Eildon Hall

Eildon Hall is a Tudor mansion house, originally built in 1802, with significant additions made between 1861 and 1867 by William Burn. The house is two storeys with a basement and attic, and has a symmetrical, gabled design across seven bays, set on a sloping site. The central portion of the house is constructed from orange sandstone, while the later additions are of pink, squared, and snecked sandstone, with pale sandstone ashlar dressings. Raised cills and banded string courses delineate the floors, and in-and-out quoins add detail. Shouldered dormer windows break through the eaves, topped by ball finials to the gables and dormers.

The south (principal) elevation is five bays wide, featuring a prominent, two-storey, bowed and gabled bay at the centre. A double return stair with a round arch at basement level, added in 1861, leads to a two-leaf glazed and timber-panelled front door. Recessed sections flank the central bay, containing wide, mullioned tripartite windows. Canted windows rise from the ground floor to the first floor at the gabled outer bays. A long, single-storey kitchen wing adjoins the east elevation and features an advanced gable at its centre.

The north elevation is seven bays wide, arranged as 1-1-3-1-1, with a pale sandstone ashlar entrance porch addition to the central bay, which includes an Ionic pilastered doorpiece. A stone balustrade runs along the basement level wall, flanking the porch, added in 1866.

Multi-pane timber sash and case windows are present in the three-bay central core. Elsewhere, the majority of windows are timber sash and case with four panes of glazing. The roof is covered in grey slate, and tall corniced ridge and end stacks are constructed of pale ashlar, topped with clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are in place. A terraced lawn extends to the south.

The interior features a square hall or vestibule at the rear (north) entrance, with early 19th-century plasterwork decoration to the ceiling. A central corridor runs along the spine of the house, leading to five principal rooms on the ground floor. The dining room is decorated with fine, hand-painted oriental wallpaper and features a large, roll-moulded marble fireplace, while a variety of marble and timber fireplaces are found elsewhere in the house. An internal three-arch arcade is positioned at the upper stair landing, and the staircase turns at a right angle, featuring barley-twist timber banisters. An octagonal room in the bowed centre bay at basement level was altered around 1861 to accommodate the external double return stair to the first floor at the south elevation.

The stable block, predominantly dating from 1802 and with additions by William Burn between 1861 and 1867, is of square plan and classical design. Constructed from orange sandstone with pale ashlar dressings and in-and-out quoins, the stable block is two storeys high and has a piend roof over the entrance section, which features a basket-arched pend with a corniced pediment above and an occulus window. A banded cill course with two loft-level windows flanks the entrance, while further basket-arch openings containing two-leaf timber doors are found on the courtyard elevation. Single-storey ranges extend to the east and west, and a patterned cobbled courtyard completes the layout.