Steading, Cormiston House

The steading and house at Cormiston House date from the early 19th century, with further additions and alterations made throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. The original house is a two-storey, three-bay structure built of whinstone rubble with cream sandstone dressings. It features a central entrance flanked by two two-storey canted bays. The doorpiece has banded pilasters and a plain entablature with a keystone, incorporating a double six-panel grained outer door with a plain fanlight and a half-glazed main door with a three-pane segment-headed fanlight. A single 12-pane sash-and-case window sits above, with raised quoins. The canted bays each have a four-pane sash-and-case window to the side. The house has a moulded eaves course, weathered skews, and gablehead chimney stacks with four octagonal stone-built cans on each. The roof is slate-covered. To the right is a single-storey, pitched-roof wing and to the left an early 20th-century extension in an L-shape, with a mansard roof and three bays to the front. This extension is harled and slated, featuring large 12-pane sash-and-case windows on the ground floor and 6-pane lower, 3-pane upper sashes in a timber frame on the first floor. Fireclay ridges are present. The rear elevation is largely nondescript and harled, matching the extension. An early 19th-century steading is located to the rear of the house, constructed in a similar style to the original building, although partly harled and partly with harl pointing. A small walled garden lies beyond the house extension.

The interiors are of good quality and include fine plasterwork. The main staircase has plain railings with a finely carved wooden handrail. There are some early 20th-century light fittings and two black tiled bathrooms in an Art Deco style. The extension reflects the school of Burnet architecture.