Stables, Lovedale, Shore Road, Kilcreggan is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1995. Villa.
Stables, Lovedale, Shore Road, Kilcreggan
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-soffit-smoke
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1995
- Type
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NS 230 805
- Coordinates
- 55.98496, -4.83866
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a mid-19th century stable located at Lovedale on Shore Road in Kilcreggan. It is a two-storey, two-bay gabled villa constructed from whinstone with harl pointing, featuring painted ashlar margins and dressings. The design includes projecting eaves, exposed rafters, quoin strips, and a base course.
On the southeast elevation, there is a broad gable on the outer left with a full-height bowed window. To the right, a slender bay is recessed and features an angled porch supported by square piers in the re-entrant angle. The southeast elevation also has a blank wall on the outer left, with the porch in the re-entrant angle. A broad two-bay gable is advanced to the outer right, with symmetrically placed windows, including tripartite windows at the ground level and bipartite windows on the first floor.
The northwest elevation has a blank wall to the left and a broad gable on the outer left, with two symmetrically placed windows on the first floor. There is also a single-storey lean-to block at the ground level on the outer left. The northeast elevation features a blank wall with a single-storey lean-to scullery block at the centre, and a former wooden slatted larder stands free-standing to the outer right.
The windows are plate glass timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate and has lead flashings, with a tall rendered and coped wallhead stack, squat coped sandstone ridge stacks, and circular cans.
Inside, the hall windows feature painted glass, and the stair has cast-iron barley-sugar balusters. The drawing room is adorned with acanthus leaf plasterwork and a ceiling rosette, along with a four-panelled door.
Additionally, there is a greenhouse designed by Simpson and Farmer from the mid to late 19th century. It is a wooden and glass rectangular-plan block with a gabled porch to the southeast of the house, featuring decorative cast-iron cresting along the porch entrance, although the cresting along the ridge of the main body has been removed.
To the northwest of the site is the stable block, which is a rectangular-plan structure with an advanced gable to the southeast, featuring two doors at ground level and a hoist door in the gablehead.
The boundary wall and gatepiers consist of whinstone with harl-pointing to the northwest, while the southeast features a stugged ashlar wall with moulded ashlar coping and arrowhead railings. The square piers have a modillion cornice and raised pyramidal cap.
Local climate
Stables, Lovedale, Shore Road, Kilcreggan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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