Weir House

This is a late 17th-century Renaissance house. It is constructed of roughly coursed rubble stone, with a 20th-century hipped roof covered in composition stone tiles. The end stacks have stone bases, 20th-century brick flues, and clay chimney pots. The symmetrical, two-and-a-half-storey front elevation faces southeast. The attic storey features three gabled dormers, each with a 2x2 pane casement window. The window openings on the ground and first floors have flat skewback lintels constructed with stone voussoirs and projecting keystones, along with shallow stone sills. The windows are transom-type, with a 1x1 fixed pane above a 2x2 pane casement below. On the first floor, there are three windows; similar windows flank the central entrance doorway on the ground floor. The doorway has a wooden trellis porch and a 20th-century glazed door.

The rear elevation is irregular, with a projecting two-storey wing on the left, a gable of a small stair wing in the centre, and a single-storey lean-to outshut on the right. The outshut is painted and has a brick wall on a stone base, along with a tall brick chimney on the right side. It has a 20th-century glazed door and an 18th-century 2x2+2 pane casement window. A small, weatherboarded turret with a lean-to roof rises above the outshut's roof towards the left, projecting from the stair wing’s end-gable.

The northeast elevation incorporates the end wall of the main house on the left, a two-storey wing that was formerly a shop to the right, and a former slaughter house further to the right. The basement of the main house has a doorway with a segmental arch of stone voussoirs and a boarded door. The former shop wing has a slate roof, cambered brick window openings with shallow stone sills, and 20th-century wooden windows. The ground floor has a central doorway with a glazed 20th-century door, with windows on either side. The first floor has a small square window, a rectangular window, and a larger vertical window from left to right. The former slaughter house is single-storey with a corrugated iron roof; the ground floor features a boarded door on the right and a square blocked window opening on the left.

Inside, the partition walls that formerly separated the principal ground floor rooms have been removed, creating a single, open space divided by a central staircase. The room to the left of the entrance has chamfered ceiling beams and joists, along with a flat-headed fireplace lintel constructed with stone voussoirs. The room to the right features a segmental arched stone fireplace lintel and a plain hob grate. An exceptionally fine, late 17th-century dog-leg staircase has a closed string, turned balusters with square unturned blocks (“knops”), square newel posts beaded at the angles with plain caps, and attached half balusters on the inner face of the newel. The attic storey has plain rectangular balusters. The attic itself has 18th-century boarded doors with strap hinges, and 17th-century casements with turnbuckle window catches and tulip leaf handles. The ground-floor outshut window has a chamfered mullion with iron stanchions. A 17th-century creased door leads to the cellar. The attic of the rear wing has three bays with exposed collar trusses, stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.