Dalriada, Feuins Road, Portincaple

Dalriada, designed by Watson and Salmond in 1909, is a single-storey bungalow-style house set on sloping ground descending to the south-east. The building follows an L-plan with a semicircular veranda, a south-east wing, a porch projection to the north-east, and a former conservatory advanced at the south. The exterior is rendered in white-painted harl with applied timber detailing, and features flush timber-mullioned windows with cills and cornices throughout.

The north-west entrance elevation comprises three broad bays. A timber veranda at the centre rises from a semicircular plinth approached by two stone steps. The veranda is supported on timber pillars with consoles beneath projecting eaves. A half-glazed door recessed at the centre is flanked by bipartite casement windows. A wide, shallow segmental leaded dormer at the centre lights the stair hall and has a lead half-drum roof. Large five-light mullioned windows are grouped towards the centre in the outer right and left bays.

The north-east elevation has three bays with a projecting porch at the centre featuring a half-piend roof and applied timber cill course and detailing. Doors are positioned on the right and left returns, including a panelled four-centred arch door set into a basket arch opening. A small tripartite window with four-pane casements sits below the eaves, and four-light windows occupy the right and left bays at upper level.

The south-east rear elevation contains a two-storey advanced block with two round-headed boarded doors at basement level and a tripartite window at the centre directly beneath the eaves, flanked by vents. The single-storey section to the right has a door in the corner and a bipartite window at the outer left, with a small window to the right. The main house block to the right comprises three bays plus a fourth canted bay at the outer left, with two tripartite windows at the centre and a small window at the outer right.

The south-west garden elevation displays five asymmetrical bays. A canted, flat-roofed boiler house is advanced in front of the penultimate bay to the left, with a gable breaking the eaves. A lean-to conservatory, now with a perspex roof, is reached by a forestair to the right, with the raggle of the former gable visible above on the gable. A small four-paned window sits at the outer left with a tripartite window to the right. A two-bay wing block is slightly recessed to the right, with a canted full-height bay at the outer right containing a single window at ground level and a canted window at first floor directly beneath the eaves. A boarded door and flanking window are positioned to the left, with a tripartite window at first floor.

Windows throughout are timber-mullioned casements with six-pane lights, ranging from tripartite to five-light configurations. The roof is piended with red pantiles and semicircular terracotta ridge tiles, with lead flashings. A tall grey harled ridge stack, jettied and topped with red tile coping and terracotta cans, rises from the main roof; an apex stack stands on the gable to the south-west elevation.

The interior features a large vestibule with vaulted ceiling lit by a tripartite segmental stained glass window. The centre window contains a vignette depicting a ship and setting sun with entwining roses to either side. A former studio occupies the north side of the house.

Within the south-east corner of the garden stands a single-storey, square-plan garden house with a piend roof and pigeon loft. It is rendered in harl with a pantiled roof featuring semicircular ridge tiles and a terracotta finial. A boarded door opens on the north elevation, and a small window is set in the east elevation. Timber flight-holes puncture the roof line on the north and west ridges, which retain their pantiles.

A low garden boundary wall of red industrial brick with semicircular coping runs along the south-west and west sides of the property, rising higher to the west. A segmental-headed bridge carries the wall over a burn to the north-west. Three steps descend from the entrance to the garden.