Gatepiers, Ardoch, Cardross

The gatepiers at Ardoch in Cardross date from around 1780, with a mid-19th century tower addition and alterations. The structure features a single-storey symmetrical entrance front with a two-stage tower and a two-storey section at the rear. It is constructed of painted stucco with painted ashlar margins and dressings, and has a base course at the front. The ground floor has architraved openings.

On the southwest (entrance) elevation, there is a low square entrance tower at the center with splayed wings. The tower includes a round-arched entrance at the ground level, with moulding and roundel moulding in the squinches. A tripartite half-glazed door is slightly recessed, and there is a tripartite window at the upper stage. The tower has a piended roof with a weathervane finial. The returns feature bipartite windows at both the ground and first floors, while the flanking bays have windows on each elevation with splayed half-piended corner bays.

The southeast elevation consists of a single-storey range attached to a two-storey, four-bay block. There is a French door at ground level on the outer left, with a large fixed 12-pane fanlight above it. Two brass plaques are located in the blank bay to the right, one inscribed "presented to Don Roberto from the Argentinian government," with the lower plaque dated 1937 and the upper from 1975. The windows in the bay to the outer right are symmetrically disposed, as are the windows at the first floor, with a blank bay at the penultimate right.

The windows throughout include plate glass timber sash and case windows, with a 12-pane sash and case window on the two-storey block at the rear.

The interior was not seen in 1994.

To the east of the house, there is a red brick garden wall with brick buttresses at regular intervals and ashlar slab coping. The boundary wall and gatepiers are made of ashlar with stop-chamfered arrises and pyramidal caps. The rubble wall features harl-pointing and ashlar slab coping.