Armadale, Shore Road, Cove And Kilcreggan

Armadale is a cottage villa block built in 1863, with later additions from the 19th century. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure that features an asymmetrical, gabled rectangular plan. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar with polished sandstone margins and dressings, and larger sandstone used for the southeast additions. It has hoodmoulds and chamfered reveals, a base course, deep eaves, and exposed rafters.

On the southwest (main) elevation, there is a tall, narrow gable to the left, with an advanced five-light corniced window at the ground level, topped by a lead roof. Above this is a transomed, timber mullioned, three-centre arched window, along with a small niche in the gablehead. To the right, there is a Tudor-arched door with a panelled door and a plate glass fanlight, along with a small swept later bipartite dormer above. A canted window with a decorative cast-iron parapet is located to the right, with ashlar dies and coping, and a gable that breaks the eaves over a narrow pointed arch window. The broad two-bay block to the right has a jettied gable, with symmetrically disposed windows; the ground floor windows feature a stone transom, while the first floor has smaller segmental-headed windows. There is a full-height round tower bay at the outer right corner, with stone transomed and mullioned windows and a conical roof. To the outer left, there is a single-storey, piend-roofed harled block with stone margins and dressings, featuring a bipartite window.

The southeast elevation has a round bay that clasps a blank gabled elevation, with sandstone at the ground level and rendered material at the jettied first floor. The northeast elevation features a wallhead diagonal stack, while the east elevation has a bay recessed to the outer right, with large ground floor windows that are transomed and mullioned, and a bowed tripartite oriel that breaks the eaves, with multi-paned leaded upper panes.

The windows throughout the building are timber plate glass sash and case, with late 19th century decorative etched glass in the canted bay on the main elevation. The roof is covered in purple slate with lead flashings and ridge stacks that have tall circular cans.

The interior was not seen in 1993.

Additionally, there is a hexagonal wooden garden house to the south of the main house, featuring a conical fish-scale roof, a stone base, a two-leaf wooden door, and a decorative window. The boundary walls are made of whinstone and harl, with round whinstone and harl pointing topped with semicircular rounded caps.