Ardenvohr, Main Road, Cardross

Ardenvohr is a villa dating to 1885. It is a two-storey, three-bay rectangular building situated on Main Road, Cardross, and displays distinctive deep cavetto eaves. The villa is constructed of ashlar stone with ashlar margins and dressings, and incorporates a squared and snecked sandstone base course that is chamfered and moulded. The roll-moulded arrises accentuate the principal elevation.

The south elevation features three bays, with the centre bay recessed. A wooden round arch, supported by Ionic corbels and incorporating a balustrade, forms a porch in the centre, leading to a tripartite door flanked by narrow side lights. Above the door is a carved wooden balustrade and tripartite window. A full-height bow window with five lights extends to the outer right, topped with a conical roof and a lead finial. A pedimented bay is located to the outer left, also finished with a finial.

The north elevation follows an L-plan arrangement, with a two-storey and attic block projecting to the outer left. Attic windows are regularly placed directly under the eaves, cutting into the cavetto moulding. A ground floor window and a centre first floor window are located on the south side of a two-storey block, while a half-piended single-storey scullery block is positioned at ground level, with a blocked door now serving as a window. A recessed gabled bay is located on the right, incorporating a round-arched bipartite stair window with a masonry transom and mullion.

The west elevation presents three bays arranged nearly symmetrically, with a stack that advances to the outer right, breaking through the cavetto moulding to reach a tall wallhead stack. Bays are symmetrically disposed to the outer left.

The east elevation features a shaped chimney breast on the bay to the outer left, which breaks the eaves cornice to reach a wallhead stack. A gable breaks over the bay to the right, with a bipartite window at ground level and two windows at first floor. Paired ventilation slits are present in the gablehead. A lower, two-storey, two-bay block is recessed to the right, with a piend-roofed two-storey and attic block on the outer right. This block includes a door surmounted by a bipartite multi-paned fanlight, a centre first floor window, and three regularly arranged attic windows that break the eaves moulding.

The villa has plate glass timber sash and case windows and a grey slate roof with lead flashings, with wooden moulding on the bargeboards. Stone wallhead stacks incorporate incised bands, cornices, and deep coping. The interior was not inspected in 1994.

The property is enclosed by ashlar gatepiers adorned with a shallow frieze of patera and reeding, topped with domed caps. A high rubble boundary wall with semi-circular coping completes the setting.