By Biggar, Culter, Ladyholme Cottage

Ladyholme Cottage is a mid-19th century cottage with early 20th century additions and alterations. It is a single-storey building with attic dormers that break the eaves, featuring an irregular plan and three bays. The cottage is situated side on to the road in a small rural grouping next to a small bridge over the Culter Burn. The exterior is finished in painted render, with a coursed rubble porch that has sandstone dressings and pointed arched side windows. The decorative canted oriel window on the side street elevation and the gabled attic dormers are made of smooth ashlar. The cottage displays ornate timber barge boarding and decorative carved stone niches at the apexes of the porch and the northwest gable. Originally, the cottage was almost L-shaped, and the later additions create a lower section at the rear. The front right features a mullioned window, with a later canted bay addition to the right, single windowed gable dormers breaking the eaves, and a decorative canted and corbelled window on the roadside elevation.

The windows include a mix of single pane, 4-pane glazing, and 6 over 3-pane glazing in the attic dormers. The roof is covered with slate and has plain terracotta ridge tiles, along with finials on the dormers. Rendered corniced stacks with octagonal clay cans and cast iron rainwater goods complete the exterior.

The interior, seen in 2015, includes a timber staircase leading to the entrance hall, with timber bannisters and an integral under-stairs cupboard. There are timber panelled surrounds and some shutters in the principal rooms, along with various styles of timber fire surrounds featuring tiled and cast iron inserts. The doors are 6-panel timber.

A short stepped rendered garden wall with stone cappings and paired stone capped gatepiers is located at the roadside.