Scotchwell House

Scotchwell House is a country house, dating to the 18th and 19th centuries, constructed of painted stucco with slate roofs. The original Georgian section features a two-storey and attic entrance front of six bays plus one, with a truncated external stack on the left end and a large yellow brick stack on the ridge between the six bays and the wider-spaced seventh. Significant additions were made in 1887, including a taller parallel rear range and two lower gabled blocks to the south, resulting in an irregular three-gabled south garden front, which includes the south end gable of the original house. A large kitchen wing, also dated 1887, projects from the right end of the main front.

The main front incorporates four two-light 19th century eaves dormers, each with a bargeboarded gable, over the first, fourth, sixth, and seventh bays. The main floors contain hornless 12-pane sash windows with painted stone sills. A large, flat-roofed, stuccoed porch is situated in the third bay, featuring a deep projected parapet and a double volute cresting. The arched entry has a radiating-bar fanlight above a door comprised of two long arched panels. Narrow arched windows with marginal glazing are set into the porch’s side walls. The roughcast kitchen range to the north exhibits deep eaves, broken on the south by a bargeboarded gable with a glazed roundel above a pair of sashes on both the first and ground floors. The east end gable features deep bargeboards and a large yellow brick ridge stack. The higher parallel range to the west has a tall yellow brick stack on its east roof slope, visible above the original house, and a bargeboarded gable behind the two gabled blocks at the south end. The south front displays the gable end of the original house, with a truncated chimney set back to the right, followed by the wide main gable featuring a two-storey canted bay window and an upper plate glass sash with rounded upper angles and a shaped stucco surround. The smaller gable to the left is slightly recessed and incorporates a large French window with a hoodmould under a similar sash as found in the centre gable.

According to reports from 1974, the interior of the older section retains substantial Georgian detail, including panelled shutters, moulded architraves, six-panel doors with panelled soffits, dado rails, thick glazing bars with a half-round profile, and other features. A pilastered and pedimented neoclassical doorcase frames the original six-panel front door under the porch. A dog-leg timber staircase has plain balusters and a handrail, with scrolled tread ends. A wide landing is lit by a small-paned sash window with a deep internal architrave. A white marble, carved chimney piece is located in the rear dining room.