Outbuilding, 24 Craigmore Road, Craigmore, Bute

This is a later 19th-century building, originally a house and later converted into a convalescent home in the later 20th century. It is an asymmetrical, two-story building with a 3-bay by 5-bay gable design, featuring half-timber Tudor detailing on the first floor and later additions at the rear.

The house is constructed with squared and snecked stugged red sandstone, with red sandstone ashlar dressings. Notable features include a raised plinth, an architraved string course, overhanging timber bracketed eaves, red ashlar quoins, and long and short ashlar surrounds to chamfered openings. Stone mullions define the bipartites and canted windows. A corniced, round-arched doorpiece provides the main entrance, and a timber-bracketed balcony is situated on the first floor. To the west, there is a piended single-story, 2-bay outbuilding, and to the northwest, a piended single-story, 3-bay outbuilding (linking block, partially demolished, forming an L-plan).

The east-facing (entrance) elevation presents a 3-bay facade with advanced gables at the center and outer right. Steps lead to a round-arched, two-leaf timber panelled door within an architraved surround to the outer left, with raised keystones, a sculpted figure clasping an urn above the left, and a panelled frieze beneath the cornice. A single window breaks the eaves on the first floor. The central advanced bay features a 3-light canted corner window offset to the left of center, with a timber balustraded balcony beneath a bipartite window centered in the bell-cast apex. The advanced bay to the outer right has 4-light canted windows on both floors, with timber brackets supporting the bell-cast eaves.

The south-facing (side) elevation is organized in a 5-bay grouped 2-1-1-1 pattern. Small corniced bipartite windows are at ground level in the two bays to the outer right, with a single window breaking the eaves on the first floor. A 4-light canted window sits on both floors in the advanced gabled bay at the center, with timber brackets beneath the bell-cast eaves. The penultimate bay to the outer left contains bipartite windows on both floors, and the gabled bay to the outer left has single windows on the ground and first floors. A later, single-story, single-bay addition is recessed to the outer left.

Predominantly, the windows are timber sash and case with 9-pane upper sashes and plate glass lower sashes. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and terracotta ridge tiling, with original cast-iron rainwater goods. Coped and corniced red sandstone wallhead stacks terminate in circular terracotta cans.

Inside, the building’s layout has been adapted for use as a convalescent home, with timber skirting boards, timber panelling, and plaster cornice work. A timber-balustraded stair features moulded newels, a timber handrail, and a leaded bipartite stair window.

The outbuildings include a boarded timber two-leaf opening in the western block, a large garage opening to the right, and a single window and flanking doors in the former L-plan outbuilding's eastern wing.

A low coped squared and snecked red sandstone wall encloses the site on the east and south sides. Stop-chamfered piers with tapering octagonal caps and cast-iron gates mark the side entrance from Ardencraig Road. Similar piers with circular caps and replacement cast-iron vehicular access gates define the entrance from the southeast, while square-plan piers with pyramidal caps flank the entrance from Craigmore Road.