Glentrae, Rosneath Road, Cove And Kilcreggan

Glentrae is a mid-19th century villa, likely designed by Alexander Thomson. This two-storey, asymmetrical building has a rectangular plan and features Italianate details. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar with polished margins and dressings, and includes square columnar mullions. The villa has a base course, a moulded string course, advanced eaves, and exposed rafters.

The main elevation showcases an advanced broad gable with a porch set in the re-entrant angle to the outer left and a single-storey block to the outer right. The gable block features a broad bow on a deep battered base, a dentilled cornice, and a balustrade above with an ashlar die and coping, along with decorative cast-iron infill. At the first floor, there is a tripartite window with pilaster mullions. The flat-roofed porch, located in the re-entrant angle to the outer left, has steps leading to a door with an ashlar die, a bracketed cornice, a two-leaf panelled door, and a large plate glass fanlight, along with a half-glazed vestibule door. A modern lean-to garage block is situated to the outer left. The single-storey, half-piend-roofed block to the outer right is recessed and harled with a sandstone margin, featuring a tripartite window similar to the one on the first floor.

The rear elevation is finished with rough harl and painted stone margins. It includes a single-storey block to the outer left with a window at the centre, while the main body of the house has a gable breaking the eaves to the left, with windows on both the ground and first floors. There is also a half-piend roofed single-storey block at the ground right and a modern lean-to timber porch to the outer left.

The villa features plate glass timber sash and case windows on the main elevation and 4-pane timber sash and case windows on the rear elevations. The roof is covered with grey slate and includes lead flashings, a coped sandstone ridge stack with an octagonal can, and a tall coped rendered wallhead stack on the single-storey right block with a circular can.

The boundary wall is made of whinstone rubble with harl-pointing and quartz boulder coping, complemented by tall gatepiers topped with pyramidal caps.