Carloch, Shore Road, Garelochhead

Carloch is a picturesque gabled villa built around 1860, featuring two stories and an asymmetrical design, along with a single-storey service block. The exterior is constructed from whinstone rubble with raised ashlar margins, quoins, a base course, and decorative scrolled bargeboards.

On the southeast elevation, a broad gable projects to the right, with a canted window at the ground level and a blocking course adorned with decorative criss-cross carving. There is a window in the gablehead. To the left, a decorative porch with bargeboarding is supported by large wooden brackets, leading to a two-leaf panelled door. A stepped, two-part cusped pierced stone wall is adjacent, featuring a quatrefoil in the canopy gablehead. Above the porch, there is a gabled dormerhead, and a window is located at the ground outer left. The service block to the right has two bays, with a gable on the outer right, a window in the centre, and a modern glazed door to the left. The right return has three bays, with a door at the centre under a gable that breaks the eaves, flanked by narrow lights.

The northwest elevation displays asymmetrically arranged bays, with a broad gable breaking the eaves on the outer left, featuring two ground-level windows, the left one being narrow, and a window in the gablehead at the first floor. The bay to the right includes a stair window, a gable breaking the eaves above, a narrow window at ground level, and another narrow window to the right. There is a broad, bargeboarded gabled dormer on the outer right. To the outer left, a single-storey block has a tripartite glazed door, with a gable to the outer left, a glazed door to the right, and a former coach door that has been blocked as a window, with a window in the gablehead.

The southwest elevation is gabled and features two widely spaced windows at ground level, two in the attic, and a trefoil motif in the gablehead.

The building has four-over-six lying-pane glazing, a grey slate roof with Velux roof lights, lead flashings, and sandstone coped ridge stacks with octagonal cans. The interior was not seen in 1993.