Millbank Stables and Coach House, Ascog, Bute

Mid to later 19th century. Pair of 2-storey, 5- and 7-bay former service wings (coach-house and stables W, dower-house E) linked by single storey wall and car-port to N; converted to residential use. Harl-pointed random rubble sandstone; polished sandstone margins; polished strip quoins. Overhanging corniced eaves; droved rubble quoins; droved long and short surrounds to openings; projecting cills. Predominantly segmental-arched openings at ground; decorative timber gableheads to dormers breaking eaves; cobbled courtyard.

SW (COURTYARD) ELEVATION NE WING, FORMER DOWER HOUSE: irregularly-disposed segmental-arched single openings at ground; 4 gableheaded dormers regularly disposed above; pitched car-port adjoined to left of centre. NE (REAR) ELEVATION: single timber door at ground in penultimate bay to outer left (segmental-arched surround); plate glass fanlight; single window aligned at 1st floor; single windows at both floors in bay to outer left. Single window at ground off-set to right of centre; projecting lean-to conservatory in remaining bays to right; gableheaded dormer breaking eaves in bay to outer right.

NE (COURTYARD) ELEVATION SW WING, FORMER STABLES AND COACH-HOUSE: single timber door centred at ground; plate-glass fanlight; bullseye window aligned at 1st floor; single windows at ground in remaining bays to left and right; (bullseye windows aligned above windows to left of centre). Gableheaded dormers breaking eaves in penultimate bays to outer left and right and bay to outer right; pitched car-port adjoined to right of centre.

Replacement glazing throughout (some uPVC). Graded grey slate roofs; replacement rainwater goods; corniced sandstone ashlar ridge and apex stacks; octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS AND COURTYARD: ashlar coping to harl-pointed random rubble wall enclosing courtyard to SE; panelled yellow sandstone ashlar piers flanking vehicular entrance; square plinths; slightly pyramidal caps; cobbled courtyard within.