Seymour Lodge, Shore Road, Kilcreggan

Alexander Thomson, 1850. 2-storey, 2-bay, gabled cottage orne villa with single storey block to outer left and porch to outer right. Harled and painted with ashlar margins and dressings, hoodmoulds; whinstone rear and side elevations. Deep base course; timber mullions and transoms, slightly advanced eaves, exposed rafters.

NW (MAIN) ELEVATION: advanced broad gabled block to left, square projecting corniced window at ground, 2 windows (timber mullions and transoms), leaded upper panes, decorative cast-iron balustrade; broad 3-centred arched window, timber mullions and transoms; wall raised to blank gable at centre on left return. Lower block to right, large 5-light window occupying centre and right, leaded upper panes, narrow window to inner left; gabled dormer with half-lozenge window to right of centre. Half-piend-roofed porch recessed to outer right, shoulder-arched panelled door, 4-pane glazed vestibule door, quadriparite long window on right return; bipartite window in gablehead on right return, that to left blind. Single storey kitchen block to outer left, 4 small windows on main elevation, blank gable.

SE ELEVATION: broad gable to outer right, window in gablehead (4-pane over 2-pane), door and window at ground; bipartite window to outer left; rooflight; lean-to corrugated-iron shelter partly masking ground floor.

Plate glass with leaded upper panes. Grey slate roof, alternating plain and fish-scale tiled panels; cast-iron trefoil cresting; low pedestal stack with grouped octagonal cans, tall rendered and coped ridge stack.

INTERIOR: panelled wooden dado; barley-sugar balusters; ornate, acanthus leaf plasterwork, stained glass upper panes. Upper drawing room with polygonal, compartmentalised plaster ceiling, floral bosses, bead and rinceau cornice; slender colonnettes between windows.

GIG-HOUSE: single storey, rectangular-plan outbuilding in same style to E of house. Narrow gable to outer right with boarded door, pointed arch window in gablehead; 6-pane fixed window to left.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: whinstone wall with harl-pointing, boulder coping; square piers with stop-chamfered arrises, pyramidal caps, ball finial on plinth; wooden latticed gates.