Lodge, Ardenvohr, Gareloch Road, Rhu

Dated 1858. Single storey, former T-plan, gabled lodge with modern, single storey, flat-roofed addition to W. Scots Jacobethan details. Stugged, squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar margins and dressings. Bipartite, shoulder-arched windows, chamfered reveals; base course, crowstepped gables, quoins, eaves cornice. Pedimented dormerheads. Pedestalled, pedimented finials.

N (AVENUE) ELEVATION: broad, advanced gable to outer right, bipartite window, raised star motif at centre of window, Jacobethan strapwork at gablehead, apex stack. Recessed, gabled porch to left in re-entrant angle; round-arched door with bolection moulding, blank escutcheon; decorative cast-iron lamp bracket. Door, blocked as window recessed to left, banner scroll above with ball finial on pedestal at wallhead. Dormerhead recessed to left, 3 stars in pediment, ball finial at apex and sides.

E ELEVATION: advanced, broad gable, bipartite window, Jacobethan strapwork; finial. Porch recessed to right.

S ELEVATION : block to outer right, wallhead stack at centre, eaves moulding rises as pedestal, shield with date 1858, Y-shpaed rainwater goods frame datestone; window to left. Slightly advanced gable to left, 2 windows symmetrically disposed; finial. Flat-roofed extension to outer left, sandstone to left, rendered on return.

Lying 2-pane upper sash over plate glass lower sash in bipartite

windows; plate glass sash and case elsewhere. Grey slate roof with lead flashings. Tall, corniced, sandstone apex stack with circular can on E elevation, similar wallhead stack on S elevation. Moulded skewputts. Decorative cast-iron rainwater goods (painted blue), Y-shaped downpipes with sandstone gulleys and fleur-de-lis brackets on S elevation.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

GATES AND GATEPIERS: paired ashlar gatepiers, those to right flanking pedestrian gate; piers to left marking N and S corners of lodge. Base course, blank shield at centre, moulded surround; stacked, shouldered, conical cap with ball finial. Ornate cast-iron and wrought-iron 2-leaf gates with Jacobethan decorative detailing.

BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: very low, semicircular coped wall runs from left gatepier to outer left gatepier and sweeps around corner to higher rubble terrace wall to S, chamfered coping; twisted cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lys heads; punctuated by squared and snecked dies, that to outer left missing ball finial. Boundary wall delineating area of estate runs to right of right gatepier; rubble with ashlar chamfered coping.