Rock House, Main Street, Garelochhead

Mid 19th century cottage enlarged in later 19th century to 2-

storey, asymmetrical, rectangular-plan gabled villa. Whinstone

and sandstone rubble with harl pointing and stugged red

sandstone margins. Base course; quoins; projecting eaves,

exposed rafters.

S ELEVATION: 4 asymmetrical bays. Broad gabled bay

advanced at centre, 2 large windows at ground, bipartite at

gablehead; single storey outshot at corner right return. Bay

recessed to outer right, bipartite off-centre to left, gabled

dormerhead. Block recessed to outer left with timber verandah

formed from roof sweeping down in re-entrant and supported on

posts and curved brackets; gabled dormerhead in roof to right of

block; 2 windows symmetrically placed at ground.

W ELEVATION: 3 asymmetrically disposed bays. Broad

gabled bay to outer right, full-height canted windows, blank

plaque at centre between ground and 1st floor. Lower block

recessed to right with canted conservatory on red sandstone

base built in re-entrant angle. Bay to outer left with single storey

lean-to storage block at ground.

N ELEVATION: single storey and attic, broad, gabled kitchen

block with lean-to single storey projection at ground, 3 bays with

coal-shute door to outer right. Entrance at right return, storage

block advanced to outer left with glazed lean-to roofing over

entrance over door and window. Broad, 2-storey, blank gable

recessed to right with single storey lean-to projection to outer

right, boarded door.

E ELEVATION: 4-bay block of main house with single storey

kitchen block to outer right. Broad advanced gable at

penultimate bay to left, door to ground right, 2-leaf, square

window with bolection moulding to left, small step to door,

window at centre of gablehead. Right return of S gable to outer

left. 2 asymmetrically disposed bays of main block to right,

bipartite window at ground left with large window to right; gabled

dormerhead to left, 2 smaller windows to outer right at 1st floor;

tall stack rising to left of dormerhead; slate-hung wall at right

return. Single storey service block to outer right, door to left

with modern tripartite inserted to right.

Plate glass sash and case windows, 6-pane sash and case

window on E elevation, some relacement pivot and swing

windows. Variegated purple, green and grey slate; tall, corniced

wallhead stacks, octagonal cans.

GATEPIERS: paired square piers with recessed plaques at

centre and corniced, pyramidal caps.

BOUNDARY WALL: tall rubble wall with semicircular coping

surrounds house and garden; concave curve between piers.