27 Craigmore Road, Orcadia, Craigmore, Bute

28 Craigmore Road in Orcadia, Craigmore, Bute, is a pair of two-storey, two-bay villas, possibly designed by John Orkney and dated 1860. These villas form a symmetrical four-bay block with gabled bays on the outer left and right, reflecting the style of Alexander Thomson. The entrance porches are pitched and recessed at the sides. The exterior features coursed and squared rubble sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, including a raised polished base course, modillioned eaves above the ground floor bows, a raised cill course at the first floor, and overhanging timber eaves.

The round-arched openings are set in five-light bows, with shouldered and architraved surrounds for the ground floor bipartite windows, which have ashlar mullions. The first-floor features round-arched bipartite windows with columnar mullions on the outer left and right, and channelled voussoirs. The sides and rear are finished with harl-pointed sandstone rubble.

On the east elevation, the recessed porches on the outer left and right have replacement two-leaf doors and blocked round-arched fanlights. Flanking cast-iron columns support round-arched timber canopies. The advanced bays on the outer left and right have five-light bow windows, with a bowed cast-iron balustrade beneath the bipartite windows centered in the apex above. The recessed central bays contain bipartite windows at ground level, with corbelled window-boxes beneath the bipartites aligned at the first floor. There are armorial panels above, with "JO" embossed to the left of center and "1860" embossed to the right, and corbelled round-arched timber canopies that break the eaves.

The windows are two-pane timber sash and case, and the graded grey slate roof has replacement rainwater goods. The ridge and apex stacks are corniced and rendered, with stop-chamfered square-plan corniced cans.

The boundary wall features a low coped random rubble wall along Craigmore Road, with "Orcadia" inscribed within a splayed round-arched surround at the center. The entrances are flanked by chamfered yellow ashlar gatepiers with corniced caps, although the gates for No. 27 are missing. There is a decorative timber pedestrian entry gate for No. 28. The interior was not seen in 1996.