Boundary Walls And Railings, Gate Piers, Kilcreggan House, Argyll Street, Kilcreggan

Kilcreggan House is a rambling-plan house dating from 1890, now used as a conference centre. The building was formerly a hotel and is listed as a Grade B structure.

The main house is a 3-storey, 6-bay building constructed in grey harl with sandstone margins and dressings. It features a base course with quoin strips, a string course, and an eaves cornice.

The south (main) elevation is asymmetrical across 6 bays. A modern glass and timber conservatory addition masks the ground floor. A canted tower sits to the outer left, topped with a steep polygonal roof with oculi and a parapet featuring dies with ball finials. To the right of this tower is a bay with masonry transoms at the principal floor level. Further right, a segmental-headed shell pediment breaks the eaves at the second floor. A canted bay rises from ground to first floor on the right side, with a window above and a gable breaking the eaves; it has ashlar coping to the skew and skew blocks, with a datestone set in the gablehead. The entrance is off-centre to the right, featuring a pilastered door with a heavy triangular pediment and a decorative armorial plaque. A small window sits directly above under a consoled balconette of the second floor window, which has a segmental-headed shell pediment. Two identical bays occupy the outer right, with canted windows at ground and first floor levels and bipartite windows at the second floor, topped with triangular pediments breaking the eaves.

The west elevation displays 4 asymmetrically disposed bays, with a modern breeze block and prefabricated building masking the ground level. A canted tower stands to the outer right. A narrow bay to the left of the tower has a wallhead stack breaking the eaves and a Jacobean armorial plaque inscribed "hope is constant in thee" set below the string course and cornice line at the principal floor. A 3-bay block extends to the left, with a narrow gabled block slightly advanced at the centre featuring a window at the principal floor and a bipartite window at the second floor. Flanking bays have windows at the principal floor level; the right bay features a stone transom, and both have segmental-headed pediments with shell motifs.

The north (rear) elevation is asymmetrical, with a 3-bay main block and a jamb to the outer right forming an L-plan. Tripartite windows, slightly advanced with shallow pediments and stone mullions at the outer left ground floor, characterise this elevation. A large round-headed, transomed and mullioned leaded stair window occupies a lower asymmetrical gable in the re-entrant angle.

Throughout, the house features plate glass, 4-pane timber sash and case windows, and stained, etched and leaded glass including examples of Glasgow style work. The roof is covered in grey-green slate with lead flashings. Tall corniced wallhead stacks with quoin strips complete the exterior treatment.

The interior contains egg and dart plasterwork in the hall and a polished wooden stair with a full-height newel post fluted with an Ionic capital. The stained glass and leaded stair window is notable. Ground floor reception rooms have compartmentalised ceilings, and a round arch opening connects the west room to the canted tower. Several chimneypieces feature column flanking, including an earlier 20th century example with a cupboard overmantle. A Corinthian column on a dais stands at the first floor landing.

A 2-storey L-plan service block sits to the north-east, rendered in grey with polished stone margins and dressings, stop-chamfered quoin-strips, projecting eaves with exposed rafters, and a forestair at the west elevation. A rectangular-plan service block to the outer right has a forestair at the east elevation.

Garden buildings include a lean-to, L-plan range situated outside the walled garden to the north, constructed in rubble with yellow brick details and dressings, a broad chimney stack with cornice and chevron band.

The garden boundary wall is built in rubble with harl pointing and smooth ashlar semicircular coping.

The boundary wall, gate piers and railings comprise a low rubble wall with ashlar saddleback coping. Curved entrances to the east and west are formed by inner and outer piers. The piers are stop-chamfered with stacked conical caps and floral motifs. Decorative cast-iron railings feature fleur-de-lys, floral and quatrefoil motifs.