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Detached three-bay one and a half-storey head gardener's house, built c.1870, now disused. The building is roughly L-shaped in plan with a large full-height gabled bay, porch projection and canted bays to front. The walls are constructed in squared granite with dressed granite quoins and window surrounds, whilst the overhanging slated gable-ended roof has decorative bargeboards, exposed rafter ends and chimneystacks. The roof of the porch is hidden behind a parapet. The entrance is to the south face of the porch and consists of a timber tongue and groove door. To the south of the porch is a hip-roofed canted bay with flat-headed windows with one over one sash frames. To the north of the porch there is a similar bay. The rest of the windows are also flat-headed and have a mixture of timber sash and timber casement frames. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The house it set into the high wall surrounding the garden within the Humewood Castle demesne.
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