Millburn House, Ascog, Bute

Millburn House in Ascog, Bute, dates from the mid to later 19th century. It is a symmetrical single-storey house with an attic and features three bays with gabled roofs. The house has advanced tripartite windows on either side of the entrance at ground level. It is constructed from stugged squared and snecked yellow sandstone, with polished sandstone dressings. The design includes a raised base course, corbelled and corniced ground floor windows, and hoodmoulded four-centred arched attic windows, along with decorative timber bargeboards. The ground floor openings have stop-chamfered surrounds, stone mullions, and chamfered cills, and there is a cast-iron columnar porch. The sides of the house are made of squared and snecked tooled rubble sandstone.

On the entrance elevation, there is a centrally located two-leaf timber panelled door at ground level, topped by a plate-glass fanlight and a cast-iron porch featuring flanking cushion-capital columns, scalloped pendentives, and a foliate stencilled frieze. Above the porch is a small triangular attic window. The advanced bays on the outer left and right contain tripartite windows, and there are tripartite, four-centred arched windows aligned beneath the apex, with decorative cast-iron balustrades at the front.

The house has 2-pane timber sash and case windows at ground level and plate-glass timber casements in the attic. It features decorative cast-iron rainwater goods, a graded grey slate roof, and coped apex stacks to the north and south with octagonal cans.

The boundary wall consists of squared and snecked tooled rubble sandstone, with replacement cast-iron gates.