Outbuilding, Whitelaw

This is a late 18th century house, with additions and alterations made in the mid 19th century. It is accompanied by a stable-hayloft and outbuilding, and has a walled garden to the east.

The house has two storeys and three bays, with a barn and other outbuildings to the north and a walled garden to the east. The south and north elevations are harled (roughcast), with rendered margins and lightly droved ashlar dressings on the porch. The east and west elevations are line-rendered. A rendered base course runs along the south elevation.

A single-story porch has been added to the centre of the south elevation, featuring a cornice and blocking course, a panelled door on the east return, and a window above. There is a window on each floor of the bay to the right. A later, full-height, canted window with a piend roof is positioned on the left bay, featuring stop-chamfered arrises and batter between floors.

The east elevation has five bays. Two gabled bays are on the left, with windows on each floor. To the right of these, a bay has a first-floor window; another first-floor window is located to the right of that. A further three-bay group aligns to the right, with regularly spaced windows on the first floor. A later, three-light, timber-mullioned canted window is situated at ground level in the central and left bays, with another window on the right.

The north elevation is M-gabled with a single-story projection at ground level. A panelled door with glazed upper panels is located to the left of the centre. Two boarded doors are on the east return elevation of the right projection and on the outer right of the north elevation. A window is positioned to the north of the left projection.

The windows are a mix of styles, with plate glass timber sash and case windows on the south side, 12-pane timber sash and case windows on the west, and 4-pane timber sash and case windows on the ground floor of the three-bay group to the right of the east elevation. Modern glazing is present on the north side. The roof is slate, with ashlar coped skews and scroll skewputts. Brick wallhead stacks are present on the gableheads of the east and west elevations, with an ashlar coped wallhead stack on the left gable to the north, and a rendered stack on the right gable to the north.

The interior of the house was not inspected in 1996.

The stable-hayloft runs north-south, consisting of a two-story, five-bay range with a single-story addition to the north. It is built of harled rubble with ashlar margins. The south elevation is gabled, with a timber lintel above a first-floor window to the left and a boarded door with an ashlar forestair to the right. A flighthole is visible in the gablehead. The east elevation has a louvred opening at first floor and a boarded door at ground level to the outer right, and a window with a nine-pane upper and vented lower sash to the single-story addition. The west elevation incorporates a hinged-panel boarded door at ground level, a boarded hayloft door in the gabled dormerhead, ground-floor windows in the flanking inner bays, and louvred openings at first floor of each, a modern window to the right and a small window to the left. A slate roof has ashlar coped skews, and a brick stack sits at the north apex. The roof of the single-story addition had begun to collapse by 1996. The interior contains loose boxes, stalls with stable flooring, cast-iron posts, boarded troughs, and hay hecks.

The outbuilding is located north of the house and west of the stable range, running east-west. It is constructed of stugged squared and snecked sandstone with a modern concrete lintel above a modern double opening on the east elevation, and has modern roofing.

The walled garden is located to the east of the house and features a rubble wall with rubble coping.