Kirklea, Cove And Kilcreggan

Kirklea is a mid-19th century, two-storey villa with an asymmetrical gabled design. The exterior is harled, featuring stugged sandstone margins and dressings. Key architectural elements include a base course, steeply pitched gables, projecting eaves, exposed rafters, and wooden bargeboards.

On the southwest elevation, the main façade has an advanced gable to the outer left, with a square, projecting bay at the ground level that has a battered base course and two windows. Above, there are moulded brackets supporting a square, cast-iron balcony, and a canted bipartite window with a canted slate roof at the first floor. The gable rises steeply and is capped by a timber gablet at the apex. The left and right returns are blank, except for a blind recessed panel marked by a bracketed course that turns the corner at the first floor level. There is a lower, narrow entrance gable recessed to the outer right, featuring a gabled porch at the ground level with diagonal buttresses, a pointed arch door, and a boarded door. An angled oriel sits on a battered apron with a coped roof.

The southeast elevation has a blank wall to the outer left and a four-bay block to the outer right. There is a tall bipartite window to the left, a pointed arched door with a window at ground level, and a quadripartite window above the door at the first floor. A blank, slightly advanced gable is located to the outer right. To the east, there is a stable block attached to the villa by a Tudor-arched garden gate.

The northwest elevation features a blank return of the gable to the outer right, with the gable slightly advanced to the left. There are corner windows at both the ground and first floors, and a lower blank block to the outer left.

The villa has plate glass timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with lead flashings, and plain bargeboards. The chimney stacks are shouldered, rusticated, and coped, with octagonal cans and a decorative cornice.

The interior was not seen in 1993. The boundary wall consists of a low whinstone wall with rubble boulder coping, and features rusticated piers with a plinth, stop-chamfered arrises, and an octagonal head with a pyramidal cap.