Balgair, Shore Road, Cove And Kilcreggan

Mid 19th century. 2-storey, 4-bay, L-plan, Italianate villa. Harl with sandstone margins and dressings. Base course; qouin strips; projecting eaves, exposed rafters.

SW (MAIN) ELEVATION: L-plan with squat campanile in re-entrant angle. Broad gable advanced to outer left, tripartite window at ground, 3-light round-headed window at 1st floor, decorative cast-iron balcony on brackets. Campanile breaking eaves re-entrant angle; corniced and pilastered door at ground, 2-leaf panelled door, half-glazed vestibule door with 2-pane fanlight; bipartite round-headed window at 1st floor; dentil cornice with regular square recesses arranged as Classical frieze above; shallow pyramidal roof, overhanging eaves. Narrow, piend-roofed bay to right, bipartite windows symmetrically disposed, roof rises in gable at outer right bay, full-height canted bay window, half-conical slate roof.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof, lead flashings, corniced apex stacks with octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: whinstone wall with harl pointing and boulder coping. Corniced square piers with plinth and urn finial.