Crossdrum House — CROSSDRUM LOWER

Detached five-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey over basement country house, built 1817, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1926. Now disused. Remains of hipped slate roof behind parapet with paired limestone ashlar central chimney stacks on cut-limestone cushion courses on limestone ashlar bases having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping, and concealed rainwater goods. Limestone ashlar walls on lichen-covered cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on plinth with rusticated cut-limestone quoins to corners supporting dentilated ogee-detailed cornice below parapet. Segmental-headed central door opening in tripartite arrangement approached by flight of four cut-limestone steps, cut-limestone doorcase with Doric columns on plinths having responsive pilasters supporting ogee-detailed cornice on blind frieze, and cut-limestone archivolt framing remains of timber door having fanlight with remains of timber sidelights. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone surrounds framing remains of one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior in ruins including (ground floor): central hall with egg-and-dart-detailed decorative plasterwork cornice to compartmentalised ceiling centred on decorative plasterwork medallion. Set in unkempt grounds.