Hunthill

Hunthill is a mid-18th century house, incorporating earlier fabric, with numerous later alterations and additions. It is a tall, three- and five-bay gabled house with an attic, and includes single- and two-story additions. The house is constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings.

The northwest elevation features a three-story, five-bay principal block. A lean-to stone porch, dated 1955, is located in the penultimate bay to the right, with a basket-arched, stop-roll-moulded doorcase dated 1850. A small window above the porch serves the first floor only. The central bay is lit by three windows, illuminating the staircase. Above the first window is a late medieval armorial panel bearing the arms of Rutherfurd of Hunthill. The penultimate bay to the left has small bathroom or closet windows on each floor, while the outer bays have windows on each floor, with the ground-floor windows barred. Two gabled dormers, both bipartite on the left, are positioned in the attic. To the right is a flat-roofed, irregular, two-story, three-bay rubble extension, dated 1954-8, with coped wallheads and regular fenestration and chamfered reveals. A coped rubble wall continues the line to a square gatepier. A roughcast, two-story, piend-roofed bay is set back behind the wall, with an irregular, single-story services and garage range on the right.

The northeast elevation has a blank gable with rusticated quions on the left. A narrower, single-story, flat-roofed, roughcast porch is at ground level, with a flat-panelled door at centre. The door has a semicircular fanlight resembling a sunburst, with flanking rectangular lights creating a Venetian window effect. Convex, coped rubble forecourt walls flank the porch.

The southeast elevation is a symmetrical, three- and five-bay, three-story garden elevation with rusticated quions. A band course runs above the ground floor, designating the first floor as the piano nobile. Windows are present in all bays on all floors. A two-leaf glazed door with a multi-pane geometric fanlight is centered, with a moulded architrave, bracketed cornice, and pilaster strips. The three right-hand windows of the first floor (drawing room) have dropped sills. A pair of bipartite gabled dormers sit between the outer bays. A flat-roofed, two-story, three-bay wing is to the left, with a coped wallhead and regular fenestration; modern windows are in the outer bays at ground level. A piend-roofed single bay is to the left, with a roughcast single bay incorporating a timber mullioned tripartite window to the outer left, flanked by services and a garage.

The southwest elevation is a blank gable with rubble and roughcast walls and single- and two-story additions at ground level.

The windows are timber sash and case with 12 panes. Ashlar coped skews and stacks are present, with grey slates covering the roof.

The interior was uninspected in 1992.

The forecourt and garden walls are composed of three curved, coped rubble walls, terminating in square piers. The east and south (garden) piers have cup and cover finials. The north wall has a decorative wrought-iron pedestrian gate and gatepiers with mannerist finials.

The forecourt gatepiers and gates include a pair of large, square ashlar gatepiers with flattened pyramidal caps and a wrought-iron carriage gate, with a smaller pier to the north.

The entrance gatepiers consist of a pair of square ashlar gatepiers topped with a lion rampant holding a scrolled cartouche, which were brought from Hartrigge House.