Belmont, Low Askomil, Campbeltown

Later 19th century. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay asymmetrical house, eclectic design with baronial, classical and Italianate details, now subdivided. Rectangular plan with 2-storey L-plan service wing clasping NE corner. Stugged ashlar walls with polished ashlar dressings to S and E elevations, roughcast W and N elevations with droved ashlar dressings. Battered base course, lintel course at ground floor, eaves course. Architraved windows to principal front with bracketted cills, margined windows with projecting cills to side, rear and service wing elevations.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical, 3 bays, entrance door centred at ground floor with projecting distyle classical porch comprising ashlar steps, Tuscan columns supporting entablature with bold cornice. Corresponding pilasters flanking 4-panel timber door flanked in turn by smaller pilasters, corniced lintel and 2-pane plate glass fanlight above. Bipartite window centred at floor above. 4-light, 2-storey canted bay in bay to left, corbelled out to square and gabled with crowsteps and ball finial at 1st floor. Bipartite windows at ground and 1st floors of bay to right. Ground floor window corniced, round-arched gabled dormerhead over 1st floor window.

W ELEVATION: windows to outer right at ground and 1st floors.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: 3 bays, near-symmetrical, round-arched stair window centred at 1st floor, now converted to upper flat entrance door, accessed by modern concrete stair and bridge. Stained glass surviving in arch-head. Corner at outer left obscured by service wing.

E ELEVATION: 2 bays visible at centre and to left, bay at right obscured by service wing.

SERVICE WING: symmetrical stugged ashlar S elevation, gabled with crowsteps and finial, roughcast irregularly fenestrated side and rear elevations.

Timber sash and case windows, plate glass to principal front, predominantly 4-pane elsewhere. Grey slate piended platform roof with overhanging timber eaves, bracketted to front and sides. Cast-iron brattishing around platform, cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Timber slate-hung box dormers with 4-pane timber sash and case windows, flanking E stack, to right of W stack, and with stacks flanking at N. Ashlar wallhead stacks centring elevations to E and W, panelled and corniced with decorative circular cans, roughcast coped wallhead stacks flanking centre bay of N elevation.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1995.

BOUNDARY WALLS: random rubble boundary walls to garden and random rubble retaining wall to Low Askomil. Painted gatepiers with bases, panelled shafts, corniced and ogee-domed caps.