Scoulag Cottage, Mount Stuart House

Robert Weir Schultz, 1898. Baronial vernacular style; asymmetrical, single storey with attic triangular-plan lodge set on tapering, sloping site between 2 roads; flat-roofed 3-bay bowed projection to S; canted, 2-sided end to N; full-height engaged entrance tower recessed to SE; basement at rear. Whitewashed harl; polished Gourock sandstone dressings. Moulded coping and eaves course; architraved door-surround; part-boarded timber gabled dormers; painted shields attached to S bow; chamfered coping to sandstone entrance forecourt.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: iron-studded boarded timber door set at ground in conical-roofed entrance tower recessed to outer right; architraved and roll-moulded surround dated "AD 1898" with painted shield centred beneath angled pediment; thistle-shaped finial; single window aligned at 1st floor. Balustraded walls enclosing near rectangular-plan forecourt to front. 3 regularly-spaced bipartite windows in advanced, bowed projection to left; painted shields aligned beneath coping; small bipartite window centred in gabled dormer above.

NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: bipartite window at ground off-set to left of centre; small bipartite window centred in gabled dormer above.

Small-pane leaded timber casement glazing. Graded slate roof; Gourock sandstone ridge dressings; original decorative rainwater goods. Coped, whitewashed harl 6-flue central ridge stack; circular terracotta cans.

INTERIOR: timber skirting boards; timber panelled doors; replacement fireplaces; spiral stair. Impressive bowed end to living room.