Auchendarroch, Cove And Kilcreggan

Possibly William Motherwell, mid 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay Italianate villa, rectangular-plan with bowed rear jamb. Honey-coloured sandstone ashlar with ashlar margins and dressings; harled side and rear elevations. Base course; band course; projecting bracketted lead eaves canopy; stop-chamfered arrises; depressed arch windows on principal floor, rusticated quoins.

S (MAIN) ELEVATION: swept, canted, full-height bay, concave facets, to outer right. Entrance bay to left, shallow corniced porch with Triglyph-detailed frieze, blocking course, depressed arch opening, rusticated keystone, shallow pierced arch on right and left return, 2-leaf panelled door; bipartite window at 1st floor. 3-stage, square tower to outer left, 2-storey, tripartite projecting bay, bipartite window at upper stage.

E ELEVATION: harled and lined; bipartite windows to outer right and left, blank wall to outer left.

W ELEVATION: tower to outer right, bipartite window at upper stage to right; 2 bay block to outer left, window to left, bipartites to outer left.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: rough harled with sandstone margins. Windows to outer right and left at upper floor; wallhead stack at centre, canted slate-hung dormer to right and left. Single storey bowed jamb at centre, door and window on E and W elevations; modern stair leading to flatted accommodation on W elevation.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows; 12-pane sash and case dormer windows. Grey slate roof with lead flashings, coped wallhead stacks, octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: half-glazed, etched, vestibule door; enclosed stair; room to right off hall decorative plasterwork, floral rosette, plain block marble fireplace. Stair exposed in upper flat, entered via single storey jamb, cast-iron balusters, wooden rail; stained glass roof lighting upper landing, stair, figurative scenes of hunter, fisher, chemist.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: low whinstone wall with ashlar saddleback coping; square pier with stop-chamfered arrises, swept flat cap; decorative cast-iron gate with circle motifs; similar pedestrian gate to W.