Milton House, Milton Avenue, Dunoon

Style of David Hamilton, circa 1842. Two-storey villa in

Hamilton's own Tudoresque style, lower service wing to north;

now offices. Harled, with ashlar margins, dressings, and

chamfered ingoes: mostly hood-moulded openings; mostly

original horizontal glazing pattern (sashes); gables

crowstepped or with saw-toothed skews. Three-bay west (main

entrance) elevation 3 bays, advanced gable right with canted

ground floor window, crenellated porch in re-entrant angle,

wall-head gable to left, single window beyond, in upper

level of wing. South elevation is symmetrical, 3 finialled

and gabled window bays, the outer slightly advanced, shallow

central porch with door now a window. Tall, east-facing stair

window. Stacks have square flues linked by cornice, some cut

down. Slated roofs. Inside, ornament is classical, principal

rooms have decorative cornice plasterwork, chimney pieces

also decorative, cast-iron stair balusters a common pattern.