2 The Square, Abbey St Bathans

A mid-19th century domestic complex comprising four linked ranges, arranged around a near-square courtyard. The building consists of two-storey structures with attics in L- and T-shaped gabled ranges (forming Nos 1–4 and Nos 5–6), with a separate single-storey rectangular block closing the south side.

The construction uses harl-pointed rubble whinstone with sandstone dressings and harled single-storey additions to Nos 1 and 5. Detailing includes overhanging timber bracketed eaves, timber bargeboards to gables and dormerheads, stugged sandstone quoins (some whinstone rubble), and stugged long and short sandstone surrounds to lightly droved, stop-chamfered openings with projecting cills and 2-pane fanlights. Decorative stone brackets support penticed porches.

East elevation (Nos 1–2): A 5-bay range with a lower single-bay addition to the outer left. Boarded timber doors occupy the penultimate bay to outer left (No 1) and the bay to outer right (No 2); single windows are set in the bay to outer left and the additional bay; single narrow lights fill the remaining two bays to the right.

South elevation (Nos 3–4): A 5-bay range with a boarded timber door and pentice porch in the penultimate bay to outer left (No 3), flanked by single windows. Another boarded timber door with pentice porch stands in the bay to outer right (No 4), with a single window in the adjacent bay to the left. Four regularly disposed gabled dormers rise above.

North (rear) elevation (Nos 2, 3, 4): A 6-bay range featuring a bipartite window offset to left of centre; a projecting tripartite window in the bay to the left, with a gabled dormer aligned above and a bipartite window at ground in the outer left bay. A gabled bay projects to the right of centre, containing a 4-light canted bay at ground level with a single window centred beneath the apex. A timber door at ground level sits within a lean-to projection in the subsequent bay to the right. A gabled bay projects to the outer right with a bipartite window at ground and a single window centred beneath the apex.

West elevation (Nos 5–6): A boarded timber door, offset to left of centre (No 5), is accompanied by a single window to the left and a single window in the lower addition recessed to the outer left. An advanced gabled bay to the outer right (No 6) contains a single window offset to left of centre at ground, with a boarded timber door and single window in the return to the left.

South elevation (No 6): An advanced gabled bay to the outer right holds a boarded timber door offset to right of centre. A bipartite window at ground occupies the bay recessed to the left, with a single window aligned beneath the surmounting gable. A narrow single window sits at ground in the subsequent bay to the left; a bipartite window at ground appears in the outer left bay, topped by a gabled dormer.

East (rear) elevation (No 5): A 4-bay range with a lower single-bay addition to the outer right. A bipartite window is centred within a gabled projection in the penultimate bay to the outer left; a boarded timber opening stands in the bay to the outer left. A bipartite window at ground occupies the bay recessed to the right of the gable, with a gableheaded dormer breaking the eaves above. A 4-light canted window fills the subsequent bay to the right, with a gabled attic light corbelled out above. A single window lights the single-storey addition to the outer right.

Windows throughout are lying-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames, with various skylights. Grey slate roofs carry cast-iron rainwater goods. Brick-built ridge and apex stacks with single and paired flues feature various circular cans.

The courtyard preserves an original decorative cobbled surface with drainage channels running to the centre. Rubble-coped rubble walls enclose the site to the east.

The interiors were not inspected at the time of survey in 1997.