Belmont, Low Askomil, Campbeltown

Belmont is a later 19th-century house, now subdivided, situated at Low Askomil, Campbeltown. The building is asymmetrical in design, incorporating baronial, classical, and Italianate detailing. It has a rectangular plan with a two-storey L-shaped service wing attached to the northeast corner.

The exterior walls are of stugged ashlar, with polished ashlar dressings to the south and east elevations, contrasting with roughcast surfaces and droved ashlar dressings on the west and north sides. A battered base course is present, alongside a lintel course at ground floor level and an eaves course. The principal south elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a centred entrance door within a projecting distyle classical porch with ashlar steps and Tuscan columns supporting an entablature and cornice. Flanking the door are smaller pilasters, a corniced lintel, and a two-pane plate glass fanlight above. A bipartite window sits above the door, while a four-light, two-storey canted bay is to the left, corbelled out to a square form with a gable, crowsteps, and a ball finial on the first floor. A bipartite window is located at ground and first floor level in the bay to the far right. Other windows are architraved with bracketed sills, or margined with projecting sills.

The west elevation has windows to the outer right at ground and first floor levels. The north (rear) elevation is near-symmetrical, displaying a round-arched stair window at first floor level, now converted into an entrance for an upper flat, accessed by a modern concrete stair and bridge; stained glass remains within the arch. The east elevation showcases two bays at the centre and left, with the right bay obscured by the service wing.

The service wing is symmetrically designed with a stugged ashlar south elevation, gabled and topped with a finial, alongside roughcast and irregularly fenestrated side and rear elevations.

The building retains timber sash and case windows, with plate glass to the front and predominantly four-pane windows elsewhere. The roof is grey slate, piended with overhanging timber eaves, bracketed at the front and sides, and includes a cast-iron platform with brattishing and gutters, along with downpipes. Timber slate-hung box dormers feature four-pane timber sash and case windows, flanking east and west stacks, and ashlar wallhead stacks with panelled and corniced decorative circular cans are present on the east and west elevations. Roughcast coped wallhead stacks are situated flanking the centre bay of the north elevation. The interior was not inspected in 1995.

Random rubble boundary walls enclose the garden, with a random rubble retaining wall at Low Askomil. Painted gatepiers have bases, panelled shafts, corniced capitals, and ogee-domed caps.