Ivy Craig Cottage, Shore Road, Cove And Kilcreggan

Mid 19th century. 2-storey, symmetrical, rectangular-plan, gabled double villa, built as tenenment of 4 flats. Whinstone rubble with sandstone margins and dressings. Deep, battered base course; eaves course; string course; chamfered reveals; hoodmoulds.

West (main) elevation: symmetrical elevation; advanced gabled bays to right and left, recessed centre blocks with veranda spanning both porches at ground, gambrel-roofed entrance bays recessed to outer left and right. Tall advanced gabled bays to right and left, scalloped and moulded canted window at ground, cast-iron parapet with ashlar die and coping; broad timber transomed and mullioned 3-centre arched window at 1st floor, hoodmould; small, blind, tripartite light in gablehead; harled right and left return, recessed panel below where string course turns corner, 2 diminutive lancets directly under eaves. Recessed 4-bay block at centre, truncated wallhead stack at centre 1st floor, blank plaque at centre, flanking gabled dormerheads, small arcaded lights to outer left and right. 2-bay, stone veranda with paired timber segmental-headed arches at centre ground, (4 windows grouped in pairs), linking porch entrance in re-entrant angles to right and left; stepped parapet with plaque at centre, doors on right and left returns, bipartite window on main elevation on porch to left, single window on porch to right. Gambrel-gabled porch bay recessed to outer left and right, Tudor-arched door, 2-leaf boarded; 5-light window occupying wall directly under eaves, chamfered reveals; blank right return.

East elevation: partial render, various openings. Modern flat-roofed addition to outer left, single storey gabled block at outer right.

4-pane, plate glass timber sash and case windows, grey slate, purple slate, modern reslating at outer left gable. Squat, rusticated ridge stacks with decorative corniced, octagonal cans; rendered wallhead stack to outer right.

Interior: not seen 1993.

Gatepiers and boundary wall: whinstone and sandstone wall with harl pointing, ashlar saddleback coping. 2 sets of stugged piers with battered base, robust conical caps supported on consoles. Whinstone rubble garden wall with quartz boulder coping.