Gareloch House, Clynder

Gareloch House is a 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan classical style villa, built in 1817. It is situated close to the east shore of the Gareloch between the villages of Rosneath and Clynder on the Rosneath Peninsula in Argyll.

The house is built of mixed whinstone and sandstone rubble with stugged sandstone ashlar dressings, strip quoins and raised margins. The shallow piended roof has a projecting eaves cornice with carved mutule decoration. The side elevations (northwest and southeast) have entrance doorways and sandstone ashlar chimneystacks with stepped pediments and clay cans. The southwest (rear) elevation has half-piended out-shots to outer right and outer left. The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing pattern. The roof is grey slate with lead flashings.

The interior (as seen in photographs taken in 2017) has a narrow central hallway with a plain staircase at the southeast end. Most rooms have simple moulded cornicing. The former drawing and sitting rooms have veined grey and black marble fireplaces with pairs of fluted pilasters and decorative mantels.

There is a low rubble boundary wall to Shore Road with rounded rubble coping stones and simple rubble gatepiers.

In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following are excluded from the listing: garage addition to rear.