Armadale, Rhu Road, Rhu

Armadale is a villa built in the early 19th century, with some modern additions. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure with a rectangular plan, featuring cream harling and honey-coloured sandstone dressings and margins. The building has chamfered reveals, a base course, and quoin strips, along with projecting bracketed eaves.

On the east elevation, the three-bay block is nearly symmetrical, with a gable breaking the eaves at the center bay. It has a delicate cast-iron open-work porch at ground level with a timber roof, leading to two-leaf panelled doors and half-glazed vestibule doors topped by a large four-lying-pane fanlight. A tall window with a block pediment is located at the first floor, while to the left, there is a slightly projecting square bay window supported by moulded corbels, which also holds a cast-iron window guard or window box at the first floor window. To the right at the ground level, there is a tripartite ashlar mullioned window.

The south elevation features a broad, advanced gabled bay on the outer right with a full-height sandstone canted window. The center window has tripartite upper panes and plate glass lower panes, with four-lying-pane sidelights. To the left, there is a lower three-bay block with two symmetrically disposed windows and French doors to the right, along with windows at the first floor.

On the west elevation, there is a broad gable with windows symmetrically arranged to the outer left and a narrow window at ground level to the outer right. The wall is dry-dashed with an ashlar coped wall to the left, and there is a panelled door with a rectangular fanlight to the right. The center features two windows with 12-pane sash and case designs, and the wall ends in a round-arched pedestrian gateway with an elaborate wrought-iron gate, providing access from the entrance front to the west.

The north elevation has a gable to the left and a single window at the first floor, with another single window at the right return. To the right, there is a recessed asymmetrical block, and a modern flat-roofed timber and dry dash garage block extends to the outer right.

The villa features four-over-six-lying-pane glazing, a grey slate roof, paired pedestalled and corniced ridge stacks, a broad stack at the west end, and octagonal cans. Inside, there is a cast-iron balustrade to the stair and plain plasterwork.