Eastcliff, Kilkerran Road, Campbeltown

Eastcliff, Kilkerran Road, Campbeltown

A classical house of circa 1825, rebuilt by Henry E Clifford in 1896. The building comprises a 2-storey, 3-bay main block of rectangular plan with a 4-bay, 2-storey service wing projecting to the north-west.

The principal north-east front is symmetrical, constructed of polished ashlar with a stepped base course and cornice with blocking course at eaves. The cornice is mutuled over the centre bay. The outer bays are slightly advanced and bow-fronted. At ground floor level, a set of stone steps with nosings leads to a recessed entrance sheltered behind a distyle screen of Tuscan columns and pilasters. The screen is flush with the first floor level and supports an entablature decorated with a dentilled string course, florets and cornice. The entrance door is centred behind the screen with flanking narrow windows, all featuring leaded stained glass. The first floor has a tripartite window at the centre, with flanking bow windows to each outer bay, also with tripartite windows at ground floor and surmounted by balustraded parapets. Projecting cills mark all windows.

The service wing to the north-west extends at eaves course level, with the first two bays containing three evenly spaced narrow windows at ground floor. A tripartite window bridges the third and fourth bays at first floor level, with pilasters between and a bracketed, corniced cill below.

The south-east elevation is rendered in harled stone with raised polished ashlar margins to openings. A large 3-light canted bay window at ground floor is surmounted by a timber loggia comprising columns with exaggerated entasis and a plain balustrade between, with a glazed door providing access to the house. A modern conservatory has been constructed on an existing ashlar plinth at ground floor to the left of this bay. The north-west elevation is rendered with a service hatch with ashlar margin at ground floor level and a single narrow window to the right. The south-west elevation is plain and irregularly fenestrated across its full length, with a large bipartite window at the outer left at first floor and a tall stair window at the penultimate bay to the right, flanked by a projection with bipartite windows.

All windows are plate glass timber sash and case windows, curved to profile around the bows. The entrance door features leaded stained glass in its fanlight and flanking windows. A notable 18-pane stair window contains Art Nouveau leaded and stained glass depicting a ship. The entrance comprises a 4-panel, 2-leaf timber door with a 2-panel oak inner door featuring leaded glass upper and column mullion.

Grey slate roofs are piended at the ends and over the wing, extending into the bows with ridges terminated by decorative lead finials. The loggia is covered by a piended roof with overhanging eaves, exposed rafter ends and a boarded ceiling. Cast-iron gutters, profiled at end elevations, and downpipes with splayed tops serve the building. Polished ashlar chimney stacks, mostly with circular cans, rise through the roof.

The interior retains most original fixtures and fittings except some chimneypieces. The drawing room features a 3-pointed arch with a panelled soffit. Panelled timber doors throughout comprise 6-panel doors to principal rooms on both floors, architraved at ground floor level, and 4-panel doors to service areas. The dining room contains an original oak chimneypiece and a buffet recess with flanking panelled pilasters. A stone internal stair with timber balustrade featuring turned balusters and a square finialled newel is accessed through a 3-pointed arch. The east bedroom retains a timber chimneypiece with corniced shelf and corniced and dentilled overmantle. A bracketed timber chimneypiece appears in the billiard room to the west. A vertically-boarded timber shower enclosure with a round-arched opening over the bath and a lead shower insert is also present.

A double garage with 3-bay sides, roughcast rendered with pilaster strips between each bay, features 8-pane glazing at the sides and 6-leaf folding, vertically-boarded timber doors with 4-pane uppers. A grey slate piended roof covers the structure.

The boundary wall to Kilkerran Road is coped random rubble. Channelled and panelled square gatepiers with bases and ogee domed caps flank wrought-iron 2-leaf gates, with a matching pedestrian gate to the right.