Woodend House, Loch Fad, Bute

Woodend House, built in 1824 by Edmund Kean, is a symmetrical, two-storey, three-bay classical house located at Loch Fad, Bute. It features single-storey, single-bay piended wings that are recessed to the outer left and right. The exterior is finished with painted harl and has painted sandstone dressings. Notable architectural details include a raised base course, an eaves course beneath corniced eaves, and a painted blocking course. The house has narrow strip quoins, painted margins, projecting cills, and a columnar entrance.

At the rear, there is a single-storey, two-bay rectangular outbuilding that is whitewashed with painted margins.

The southeast elevation, which is the entrance front, has a boarded doorway at the centre, flanked by detached columns, a plain frieze, a cornice, a block pediment, and a raised keystone. Above the entrance, there is a single window aligned at the first floor. The bays on either side of the entrance also have single windows on both floors, and the piended wings to the outer left and right contain single windows that are centred.

On the northwest elevation, a stair window is offset to the right of centre, with a small opening at ground level and single windows in the bays to the outer left and right. The piended wings also have boarded openings.

The ground floor features boarded openings, while the first floor has 24-pane timber sash and case glazing. The roof is a graded grey slate piended roof with replacement rainwater goods. Coped, whitewashed wallhead stacks are present on the northeast and southwest sides, with octagonal cans, and there are corniced wallhead stacks on the piended wings, also with octagonal cans.

Inside, the house has an interesting interior, with a particularly fine drawing room. The outbuilding has single doors in both bays and a graded grey slate roof with lead flashings.