Auchenhard Farmhouse

Auchenhard Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse built to a symmetrical, 3-bay square plan, with classical detailing and associated outbuildings and a summerhouse. The farmhouse is constructed of snecked squared rubble with an ashlar eaves course, ashlar quoin strips, and long and short droved quoins to the northeast angle, which faces the courtyard. It has a piended roof with central chimney stacks on a platform, and a cast-iron rooflight. A pilastered doorway is located on the south side, and a canopied doorway on the west. Single-storey outbuildings are linked to the east, and an early 19th century U-plan steading adjoins the north. A 19th-century summer house stands to the southeast, at the edge of a former formal garden.

The south elevation is symmetrical, featuring a central pilastered doorway and flanking windows, with the window on the left being blocked. There are three windows on the first floor. A single-story outbuilding, formerly a smiddy, extends to the left, and an adjoining boundary wall is to the right. The east elevation has two central ground floor windows and a narrow first-floor window. A projecting, semi-derelict single-story outbuilding extends to the right. The north (entrance) elevation has a 20th-century timber door, a ground-floor window to the right, and a ground-floor window to the left. A small first-floor window sits off-centre to the left, and another first-floor window is to the left-hand bay. A one-and-a-half-story farm building (a dairy) adjoins to the right. The west elevation is symmetrical, showcasing a corniced doorway with a plain timber door and a four-pane fanlight, flanked by ground floor windows. There are three first-floor windows, the central one being blind, and two cast-iron rooflights.

The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows with horns. The roof is piended and covered in grey slates, with four coped smooth ashlar stacks on the roof platform, connected by cast-iron railings, and circular clay cans.

The interior layout is mostly original. A small vestibule leads to the principal entrance, which opens onto a dogleg stone staircase to the east, featuring cast-iron balusters with palm leaf mouldings and a mahogany handrail. Archways lead to a central ground floor passage, running in line with a secondary entrance on the west. Public rooms on the ground and first floors have plain cornices. A palm leaf ceiling rose is located at the centre of the first-floor landing, and a brass talking tube connects the landing to the ground floor kitchen or servants' accommodation. A circular timber stair, with plain cast-iron railings, rises from the first floor to the attic. Only one original plain timber chimneypiece remains in the attic room to the southwest.

An ashlar coped curved random rubble boundary wall, adjoining the house to the west, features a timber boarded door at the centre and a gate opening flanked by square-plan gatepiers.