Lethame House, Lethame Road, Strathaven

Dated 1813 on rear wall. 2-storey over cellars, 3-bay house,

linked by quadrant walls to gabled single storey stable

wings. Painted rubble with margins. Flight of steps (handrail

missing) leads to central recessed door in architrave, with

dentilled cornice and blocking course. Bipartite over door,

and single windows in outer bays. Continuous band course at

ground. Angle pilasters. West elevation has central stair

window, date stone and re-used datestone from an earlier

building on the site, and single windows in outer bays those

on ground floor broader. Single windows on north and south

gables. Eaves course, dentilled cornice and blocking course.

Central dormer. 2 symmetrically placed stacks and steep-

piended slate roof. Single storey rounded bays project from

north and south from which run quadrant walls forming link

to stable blocks. These ranges have Y-tracery Gothic windows

in east gable ends. Octagonal-plan inner gate-piers with rose

and rosette decoration and corniced caps; lower outer piers

are square-plan, with cornice and curved caps.