Claremont, Shore Road, Cove

Claremont is a later 19th century, two-storey, three-bay Italianate villa located on a prominent cliff site along Shore Road in Cove. The building features a grey stucco exterior with pink sandstone vermiculated margins and raised ashlar quoins, along with deep projecting eaves.

The north elevation, which serves as the entrance, has three nearly symmetrical bays, with the middle bay slightly off-centre to the right. It includes a classical bowed portico, which may have originated from an earlier house, supported by fluted Doric columns and fluted pilasters that hold up a heavy entablature and blocking course. The entrance door is half-glazed and surrounded by roll-moulding, with a small window immediately to the left of the porch and another window at the outer right on the ground floor. The first-floor windows have segmental pediments that break the eaves, featuring plain keystones in the bays to the right and a keystone with a bucranium on the outer left.

The east elevation consists of three bays, with a lower service jamb at the outer left corner. The first-floor windows are symmetrically arranged, while a small window is located at the centre of the ground floor. The service jamb comprises three blocks, with a narrow bay to the right and a broad window featuring eight-pane fixed glazing at the ground. There are boarded doors at ground level, sliding storage doors at the centre block, and a segmental-headed window, with a single-storey block extending to the outer left.

The west elevation is two bays and features two storeys over a basement. It has a full-height bow on the outer right, with a battered harled basement and segmental-headed windows that have quartz stone lintels. The upper storeys are made of ashlar, with figurative consoles displaying interlacing details that are all different, supporting the entablature at the principal floor. The second floor has segmental-headed windows, with tripartite windows at the centre, pilaster surrounds, and vermiculated lintels. The deep eaves are supported by corbels that have zoomorphic details.

The villa has plate glass timber sash and case windows, a grey slate piended roof with lead flashings and lead over the dormerheads, and sandstone corniced wallhead stacks with circular cans.

The interior was not seen in 1993.