Heatherbank, Beanburn, Ayton

Heatherbank, located in Beanburn, Ayton, is a villa built in the later 19th century, which has undergone some additions and alterations. This symmetrical, two-storey, three-bay building is designed in a plain classical style and was originally used as a bank and manager's house. To the left, there is a single-storey, single-bay pavilion that is recessed, while to the right, a single-storey pavilion is advanced, accompanied by a single-storey addition that is recessed to the outer right.

The exterior features squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings. Notable architectural details include a base course, a raised cill course at the first floor, and overhanging timber bracketed eaves. The building has quoins and stugged long and short surrounds to stop-chamfered openings, with sandstone mullions and flush cills.

On the north (entrance) elevation, there is a corniced, flat-roofed porch that projects at the center, featuring a two-leaf timber panelled door with a plate glass fanlight above. The ground floor has bipartite windows in the bays flanking the entrance, while the first floor has single windows in all bays. The single-storey pavilion to the outer left is a blind elevation, and the pavilion slightly advanced to the right has a single window, as does the bay recessed to the outer right.

The east (side) elevation is a blind elevation to the main block, with a single-storey projection offset to the left of center. The south (rear) elevation was not visible during the 1998 inspection. On the west (side) elevation, there is a single-storey projection to the outer right and a single window in the bay recessed to the outer left, with the main block set behind.

The windows predominantly feature four-pane glazing in timber sash and case style. The main block has a grey slate piend and platform roof, while the flanking pavilions have grey slate piended roofs. There are corniced sandstone wallhead stacks on the east and west sides of the main block, with various circular cans, and a tall, corniced, square-plan stack on the west pavilion, which also has a single circular can.

The interior was not seen during the 1998 inspection. The property is enclosed by a coped sandstone boundary wall at the front, with square-plan, coursed sandstone gatepiers flanking the vehicular entrance, which has pyramidal caps; the gate itself is missing.