House Of Mark

This is an 1803 house with additions from 1828. It is a two-story, three-bay gabled house with single-story, one-bay pavilions flanking each gable. A two-story wing extends from the rear (northeast side), and a single-story outbuilding projects from the rear of the southeast side wing. The front elevation is granite ashlar, while the rest of the building is rendered granite rubble, with brown sandstone margins. The southwest elevation has a granite rubble base course. The windows are regularly spaced and have slightly raised sandstone ashlar margins, with long and short margins on the southwest side.

The principal elevation, facing southwest, features a central, former porch, now partially blocked to create a window. It has a regular window pattern with stone-mullioned, two-part windows on the ground floor. Three small roof lights are present, and single windows are in the side wings. A large gabled wing extends from the right-hand bay of the rear elevation, incorporating windows on its sides. A staircase window is positioned in a narrow, advanced bay in the re-entrant angle, and a late 20th-century timber porch projects below.

The windows primarily have four panes of glass, with some twelve-pane glazing and plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Corniced gablehead stacks topped with octagonal clay cans are prominent. The roof is covered with graded Scottish slate and ridge tiles.

Inside, the house features a timber staircase with a polished mahogany handrail and decorative cast-iron balusters. Most rooms have fireplaces with simple timber chimneypieces and cast-iron grates. The drawing room has timber-panelled shutters, while interior doors and cornices are generally plain throughout.

Behind the house, an L-shaped gabled range forms a former steading. The long range has three timber-boarded doors on the southwest elevation, and the short range, which is a carriage shed, has two two-leaf doors. The steading is built of random rubble with roughly squared quoins, ashlar-coped skewbacks, and a Welsh slate roof with stone or terracotta ridge tiles. Some remains of cattle stalls are visible within.

A walled garden adjoins the south corner of the house. It is enclosed by a random rubble wall with a roughly pointed arch over the gateway in the northwest wall.

To the northeast of the steading is a random rubble, gabled pig sty with a small adjoining pen and a stone slate roof. A roughly square-plan, piend-roofed bothy, likely dating to the early 20th century, is also located to the northeast of the house. It has a timber-panelled front door, a bipartite window on the south elevation, and a wallhead stack on the east side. The bothy is constructed of roughly squared granite with long and short quoins and has a Welsh slate roof with metal flashings.

A gabled, random rubble outbuilding is situated to the northwest of the steading.

Random rubble boundary walls partially enclose the site. The remains of a sheep fank are found to the north of the boundary wall.