Coach House, Grafton, Rosneath Road, Cove

Probably Alexander Thomson, mid 19th century. 2-storey, 4-bay, shallow gabled villa with Italianate details. Whinstone rubble with harl pointing, polished honey-coloured sandstone margins and dressings; base couse, quoins; chamfered reveals.

W (MAIN) ELEVATION: 3-bay main block with 4th bay recessed to outer left. Depressed gabled block at penultimate bay to left, ashlar bow at ground, half-domed lead roof on timber brackets; bipartite, round-headed window at 1st floor, centre colonnette with carved acanthus leaf decoration, channelled voussoirs. Lean-to porch bay in re-entrant angle to right, ashlar steps up to round-arched door, die with acanthus leaf detail, 2-leaf panelled door, plate glass fanlight; small window at 1st floor. Tripartite window at ground outer right; bipartite window at 1st floor directly under eaves, bargeboarded gable on paired timber brackets breaking eaves; bracketted cill. Curved conservatory against right return, masking door and window at ground, 2 round-headed windows symmetrically disposed at centre of 1st floor. Slightly lower 2-storeyed bay to outer left, bipartite window at ground, single window at 1st floor.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: painted harl; 4 asymmetrical bays; broad asymmetrical gable advanced to left with piend-roofed single storey jamb at ground, large stair window to outer left, narrow windows at ground, 1st floor symmetrically disposed to right, 2-bay piend-roofed block slightly recessed to outer right, 2 windows at 1st floor, boarded door with letterbox fanlight at ground left.

CONSERVATORY: large bowed conservatory against right gable; ashlar base course, large plate glass windows, lantern platform roof, 2 round-arched windows at 1st floor.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows on main elevation, 4-pane sash and case, 4-pane over 6-pane sash and case, broad 6-pane sash and case, picture window on rear elevation. Grey slate roof, lead flashings; sandstone coped ridge stacks, round cans; rosette decoration on rafter end on gables, console skewputts.

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

COACHHOUSE: jamb at rear right. Painted harl with lean-to corrugated-iron roof, 2 boarded coach doors with centre half-glazed door at centre, letterbox fanlight.

SUNDIAL: dated 1725, low baluster sundial with copper gnomons (not original to the house).

GATES, GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: decorative cast-iron gates. Painted square piers with, cornice of rosette decoration, rounded caps. Harled rubbble wall with quartz boulder coping.