Hawthorne, Low Askomil Walk, Campbeltown

Hawthorne is a later 19th-century Italianate villa, extended around 1896, situated on Low Askomil Walk, Campbeltown. The house is asymmetrically composed and of irregular plan, with a two-storey former service wing projecting to the west and a modern lean-to stair addition to the north elevation. The exterior walls are constructed of stugged squared and snecked sandstone, with droved ashlar dressings. A base course is present, and windows have projecting cills.

The south elevation, facing Low Askomil, comprises two bays, with the right bay advanced and gabled. A bipartite window is located on the ground floor to the left, with a round-arched window above. To the right is an arcaded tripartite window on the first floor, featuring pilastered mullions and channelled voussoirs around the arch heads. A jettied gablehead is articulated around this section.

The east (entrance) elevation has three bays, with the centre bay advanced and gabled. A single-storey entrance porch of square plan is situated in the re-entrant angle to the left, incorporating architraved round-arched openings (now infilled) to the south and east. Deep overhanging eaves with brattishing are above the porch. A round-arched window sits on the first floor of the bay to the left. The gabled centre bay features a five-light rectangular bay window on the ground floor, with an additional window to the left. A bipartite window is centrally positioned on the first floor, echoed by an arcaded design matching the south gable. A modern lean-to addition occupies the bay on the right, providing access to the entrance door on the ground floor.

The two-bay, two-storey south elevation of the former service wing features a round-arched window on the ground floor, with a tripartite window above. The second bay has bipartite windows, with the ground floor window set within a segmental-arched recess.

The windows are primarily timber sash and case, with four panes at the ground floor of the main block and plate glass in the service wing. Much of the glazing on the first floor is modern, with a stained-glass stair window at the rear. The former outer entrance door is a two-leaf, round-arched, panelled door within the porch. The grey slate roof extends over the main house, service wing, and bay window, with overhanging timber eaves and decorative timber bargeboards on the south and east gables. Cast-iron gutters and downpipes are in place. Round-arched and gabled zinc canopies, with bracketted pendants and finials at the apexes, cover the round-arched windows of the south and east elevations. Coped roughcast stacks with octagonal cans are visible, with a six-flue stack at the west gable apex of the main block and a single-flue stack on the service wing.

The interior of the house was not inspected in 1995.

Boundary walls of random rubble enclose the garden and Low Askomil. A rustic arched gateway with vermiculated masonry leads to Low Askomil, containing a timber gate and a smaller wrought-iron gate to the left.