Harlaw

Harlaw is a farmhouse that likely dates from the later 18th century, with some later additions and alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay building with a rectangular plan and a symmetrical front elevation featuring classical detailing. At the rear, there is a single-storey addition. The exterior is constructed from Harl-pointed whinstone rubble, with droved and polished sandstone dressings and dry-dashed elevations on the sides. The building has a raised base course, a raised cill course at the first floor, and a raised eaves course beneath mutulated eaves. It features rusticated quoins, droved long and short surrounds to openings, relieving arches, and projecting cills.

On the southeast (entrance) elevation, there is a slightly advanced pedimented bay at the center with a timber panelled door at the ground level, which has a fanlight with crossed astragals. The doorpiece is architraved and corniced, adorned with decorative circular motifs and swags forming a frieze. A single window is aligned above at the first floor, and a lozenge attic light is centered in the pediment. The outer left and right bays each have single windows at both floors that are recessed.

The northeast (side) elevation is blind. The northwest (rear) elevation features a part-infilled stair window centered at the first floor, a small window at ground level in the right bay, and single windows at both floors in the outer right bay. The single-storey addition is offset to the left of center, with single windows at both floors in the subsequent bay to the left and a part-glazed boarded timber door at ground level to the outer left.

The southwest (side) elevation has a small attic light at the center. The windows predominantly feature 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case style, along with some small rooflights. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are stone skews and rolled skewputts. The rainwater goods have been replaced. There is a corniced wallhead stack surmounting the pediment, a corniced apex stack on the southwest, and a part-demolished stack on the northeast, along with a single circular chimney can.

The interior was not seen in 1998, but the part-infilled stair window may suggest changes to the internal layout.