Garage, Glenfeulan, Shore Road, Shandon

Garage, Glenfeulan, Shore Road, Shandon

This is a Grade B listed building comprising an early 19th-century villa with substantial additions from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, together with associated outbuildings, terrace wall, bridge and gatepiers.

The main house is a single-storey structure over a raised basement, arranged as a rectangular-plan villa with a 3-bay central block, a 2-bay wing to the north, and a bay to the south. It is faced in peach-coloured harling with yellow sandstone ashlar margins and dressings. The building features a base course, band course, eaves band and cornice, strip quoins, and figurative urns. The principal elevations have architraved openings.

The western elevation is the primary façade, presenting an advanced symmetrical 3-bay block with lower single-bay pavilions flanking a conservatory to the outer right and a lower block to the outer left. A robust stone stair and platform with pierced arch balustrade leads to the central door at principal floor level. This door has a fluted architrave with cornice on acanthus consoles, comprises 2 leaves with 8 fielded panels, and is topped by a 2-pane rectangular fanlight. Full-height canted windows flank the central bay, running from basement to principal floor. The parapet is pierced with dies, and urns mark the centre blank panel and terminal points. A recessed pavilion bay to the left contains a single window on each floor with a blocking course above. An outer left canted bay features full-height proportions with urns at its terminal. A single-bay pavilion to the outer right has a blocking course and urn at the terminal point. A 4-panel basement door with 4-glazed upper panels is also present.

The southern elevation features the conservatory to the outer left against a 3-bay single-storey block. A timber canted bay window projects from the outer right, with two 12-pane sash and case windows symmetrically disposed to the left.

The eastern elevation shows early 20th-century centre bays of the principal block advanced to form recesses between pavilions and outer additions. An off-centre quadripartite stair window to the right has stone mullions and transoms with leaded glass. Bays are asymmetrically disposed across this elevation.

The northern elevation comprises 2 bays with a canted corner bay. The outer right wall is blank, with 2 symmetrically disposed windows to the right and a canted bay with battered base at the corner.

The main windows throughout the building consist of 2-pane top-hoppers over 6-pane casement windows for the main block and pavilions, and 2-pane over 6-lying-pane sash and case windows for the wing. The roof is piend and platform slate in grey, with lead flashings. Diamond-set coped wallhead stacks rest on pedestal bases.

The interior was not examined at the time of listing in 1993.

The conservatory is piend-roofed and canted, constructed in timber on an ashlar base course. Three stone steps lead to a central door on the south front, which has a wooden lower panel and round-headed glazed upper portion with painted border glass, flanked by narrow round-headed side-lights. Two flanking arched 12-pane windows feature coloured glass in the spandrels. Single and 5-bay returns on the left and right respectively contain 6-pane arched windows matching those on the western front. The conservatory may originally have extended further to the east, now covered by an early 20th-century rendered block.

Associated with the main house are early 20th-century stores, garage and terrace wall arranged in an L-plan against higher ground to the rear northeast of the house, facing west. These are rendered in pebble-dash with sandstone margins and dressings, and feature a pierced balustrade with dies and urns.

The western elevation of this range comprises a projecting square-plan block to the outer left with 2 bays marked by pilasters, a window in the outer right bay, and door and window in the right return. A terrace wall to the right terminates in a square-plan tower with a door at ground level panelled with 9 fixed upper panes. An oculus appears at each side at the upper stage. The tower has projecting eaves, a conical slate roof and ball finial. To the left, a stepped parapet wall fronts a 3-bay garage advanced to the west, with its elevation facing north and forming a court area. The garage roof is supported by timber pilasters and columns, with panelled doors featuring 9 small glazed openings in each door, decoratively arranged 7 over 2. The roof is grey slate with rooflights. Steps to the terrace at the outer left feature twisted cast-iron balusters and are now very overgrown.

A small bridge located to the east of the house spans a small burn, featuring curved rubble parapet walls with boulder coping.

The gatepiers are of sandstone with snecked banded rustication and pyramidal caps, surmounted by large decorative urns. An original cast-iron gas-lamp standard with original lantern is positioned on the avenue.