Ivy Craig Cottage, Shore Road, Cove And Kilcreggan

Ivy Craig Cottage is a mid-19th century double villa, originally built as a tenement of four flats. It is rectangular in shape with a symmetrical, gabled design. The exterior is constructed of whinstone rubble with sandstone margins and dressings. A deep, sloping base course, eaves course, and string course are visible, along with chamfered reveals and hoodmoulds.

The west elevation is symmetrical, featuring advanced gabled bays to the right and left, with recessed central blocks. A veranda spans both porches at ground level, and gambrel-roofed entrance bays are recessed to the outer left and right. The advanced gabled bays on either side have a scalloped and moulded canted window at ground level and a cast-iron parapet with an ashlar die and coping. A broad, timber, transomed and mullioned three-centre arched window is positioned at the first floor, topped with a hoodmould. A small, blind tripartite light is situated in the gablehead. The returns to the right and left are harled, with a recessed panel below where the string course turns the corner, and two small lancet windows directly under the eaves. The recessed central block has a truncated wallhead stack, a blank plaque, flanking gabled dormerheads, and small arcaded lights to the outer left and right. A two-bay stone veranda with paired timber segmental-headed arches connects the porch entrances in re-entrant angles to the right and left; it has a stepped parapet with a plaque at the centre. There are doors on the returns to the right and left, and a bipartite window on the porch to the left, with a single window on the porch to the right. A gambrel-gabled porch bay is recessed to the outer left and right; it has a Tudor-arched, two-leaf boarded door and a five-light window under the eaves. The right return is blank.

The east elevation has partial rendering and various openings, with a modern flat-roofed addition to the outer left, and a single-storey gabled block to the outer right.

The windows are timber sash and case with four panes of plate glass. The roof is covered with grey slate, purple slate, with a modern reslating of the outer left gable. Squat, rusticated ridge stacks have decorative corniced, octagonal cans, and a rendered wallhead stack is located to the outer right.

The interior was not inspected in 1993.

The property is enclosed by a whinstone and sandstone boundary wall with harl pointing and ashlar saddleback coping. Two stugged piers have battered bases, robust conical caps supported on consoles. A whinstone rubble garden wall with quartz boulder coping also exists.