Bridge, Glen Eden, Shore Road, Cove And Kilcreggan

Bridge, Glen Eden, Shore Road, Cove and Kilcreggan

Probably by Alexander Thomson, dating to the 1850s, this is a two-storey, asymmetrical, shallow-gabled cottage villa displaying Italianate and Romanesque details. The building is constructed of whinstone and sandstone rubble with harl-pointing, finished with bull-faced pink sandstone margins and dressings. It features a moulded string course, quoin strips, base course, and advanced bracketed eaves.

The main south elevation presents an L-plan form with a porch set into the re-entrant angle and a single-storey service wing recessed to the outer right. A shallow gable rises to the outer left, with steps and a platform topped by a rusticated die. A projecting window at ground level has semicircular caps, round-headed windows above, a stone-bracketed piend and platformed slate roof, and a small cast-iron window guard to the platform. A narrow round-headed tripartite arcaded window in polished sandstone sits beneath a whinstone relieving arch. A sandstone triglyph bracket supports segmental-headed canopied barge boarding. The porch itself is square, sitting in the re-entrant angle to the right, with a bracketed ashlar balustrade, cast-iron wreath decoration, and a sandstone acanthus die. A polygonal-headed door is set into a round-headed opening on the right return facing south-east, with a tripartite arcaded window and bracketed cill facing south. The outer right features a recessed single-storey jamb with a gable to the outer left, a quadripartite window, a glazed roof block, and a blind bipartite window.

The south-east elevation shows the right return of the projecting gable to the outer left, with round-headed windows asymmetrically placed directly under the eaves. The porch appears in the re-entrant angle, followed by a broad shallow-gabled bay to the right. A bipartite round-headed window set into a pointed arched rusticated margin appears at basement left, with an oculus above. A narrow round-headed window at the first-floor centre is flanked by smaller round-headed bipartites, and two round-headed windows appear at first floor to the outer right. A single-storey jamb is advanced to the right at ground level.

The north-west elevation displays a tripartite window at ground outer right and a small bipartite under the eaves. Steps and a platform lead to a projecting tripartite window at ground outer left with round-headed windows, a piend and platform roof on consoles, small windows at the centre above, and flanking diminutive round-headed lights.

The north-east or rear elevation is painted pink harl with rusticated sandstone margins and dressings and bull-faced quoins corbelled to quoin strips. A full-height bowed bay at the centre contains a French door at ground level with flanking windows and a small window at first floor. Diminutive round-headed niches appear on the right return, with a canted single-storey block in the re-entrant angle and a blank recessed bay to the outer right. A single-storey kitchen block extends to the outer left.

The windows throughout are plate glass timber sash and case. The grey slate roof features lead flashings and paired square ridge and wallhead stacks with dentilled cornices on rusticated bases and serrated, decorative square cans.

The interior contains a narrow hall with a stone cantilevered stair and cast-iron balusters. Doors are panelled with wreath and lyre moulding above, and the space features a cornice and ceiling rosette. Marble fireplaces are present.

The coach house is an L-plan block to the north-east, constructed of painted harl with sandstone margins and dressings, projecting eaves, and exposed rafters. It is gabled to the outer right with coach doors at ground and an oculus in the gablehead. The slate roof features lead flashings, sandstone pedestals, and round cans.

A bridge carrying the avenue over the burn comprises five round-headed rusticated stone arches with slab coping and parapets of slab coping.

The boundary wall is of whinstone with large quartz rubble boulder coping curving toward broad, quartz-niched gatepiers with pedimented blocking course, raised flat cap, and irregular quartz boulder finial. A cast-iron mile sign is set into the wall to the south.