Redholme, Kilkerran Road, Campbeltown

Redholme, Kilkerran Road, Campbeltown

Redholme is a single storey and attic asymmetrical Arts and Crafts villa designed by Henry E Clifford in 1896. The building comprises a main double pile block of 2 wide bays with an inglenook projecting to the left, a single storey and attic service wing projecting to the right, and a 2-storey Elizabethan hall window set in a re-entrant angle. The walls are rendered in roughcast with droved sandstone ashlar details, ashlar quoins at the corners, chamfered arrises and sloping cills to the windows.

On the north-east principal front, the left bay features a 2-storey, 5-light canted ashlar window breaking through the eaves. The right bay contains a 4-light mullioned window. A 2-storey mullioned and transomed Elizabethan entrance hall window is set back in the re-entrant angle to the right. The service wing projects further right with an ashlar entrance bay featuring a 4-centred arch with moulded surround and a small window to its right with a staggered string course between. A roughcast wall to the right includes a 4-light mullioned window at the outer right, a buttress at the outer left and a small window in between.

The south-east elevation shows a chimney gable to the left breaking through the swept-down eaves, flanked by square windows. An inglenook gable projects at the right with narrow arched windows to its left and right.

On the south-west rear elevation, the 3-bay main block to the right comprises a gable at the left with tripartite windows at ground and first floor levels, a gabled 2-storey stair tower at the centre with a tall upper window, and a 4-light mullioned window in the right bay. The service wing projecting to the left is irregularly fenestrated.

Windows throughout are timber sash and case with plate glass lower sashes at ground floor—4 and 6-pane upper sashes—with 6-pane sashes at first floor in the principal front bay window. At the rear gable, upper sashes are 4-pane with plate glass lower sashes. The entrance hall window features diamond-pane leaded lights; the south-east elevation includes leaded and stained glass fixed lights. The entrance comprises a 2-leaf, 6-panel timber door, with an inner door of 9 panes containing coloured glass. A vertically-boarded timber service hatch with wrought-iron hinges is positioned at the outer left of the service wing rear elevation.

The roof is of red clay tile with a piended design and oversailing eaves with timber soffits. Tile-hung, flat-roofed timber dormers with casement windows (some modern) are located on both front and rear pitches of the main block and service wing. Cast-iron gutters are profiled around the bay window and entrance hall, with downpipes and hoppers at the principal front. The roughcast stacks feature coped tops with encircling ledge-courses and circular cans.

The interior retains most original fixtures and fittings in the principal rooms, including panelled doors and plaster cornices. A canted staircase with flanking doors at the landing connects to a timber balustraded gallery overlooking the entrance hall, which has an open beamed ceiling. The drawing room displays a panelled timber dado and a Jacobean arch leading to the inglenook. The walls above are finished with plaster panelling and strapwork. A Jacobean-arched, architraved chimneypiece features green glazed tiling around the grate, with a corniced shelf supporting a bracketed base of a 24-pane china cabinet overmantle. Flanking 3-pointed arch window recesses with plaster keystones at the centre contain patterned leaded fixed lights with coloured glass. The dining room has polished panelled walls, a dentilled chimneypiece with shouldered architrave, and a segmental-arched buffet recess with shelf above. A segmentally-arched inglenook appears in the first floor bedroom above the drawing room.

The outbuilding is a 4 by 3-bay roughcast garage with 4-pane timber sash and case windows, projecting cills, vertically-boarded doors and a grey slate piended roof with exposed rafter ends and timber ventilators at the ridge ends.

The boundary wall to Kilkerran Road is constructed of random rubble with circular rustic gatepiers topped with corniced and domed caps. The main gate comprises 2 leaves with 3 flush-beaded panels to the lower half, dentilled moulding and grill panels above, and full-height wrought-iron hinges with cross bars. A matching pedestrian gate stands to the right.