Rockwood, Kilkerran Road, Campbeltown

Rockwood is a large, asymmetrical house likely designed by Henry Edward Clifford around 1895. The house is approximately two storeys high, arranged in a double pile with a projecting service wing to the rear forming a rough ‘T’ shape. The walls are harled (roughcast) with decorative red sandstone ashlar dressings. The corners and window surrounds are chamfered, and windows have sloping sills with unusual long and short stone dressings.

The northeast (principal) elevation is asymmetrical, with two wide bays. The bay to the left is gabled, with a two-storey, five-light canted bay set to the right. This bay has a base course, a lintel course at ground level, and a corniced parapet. Mullioned tripartite windows are offset to the left at ground and first floor levels of the right bay.

The northwest (entrance) elevation features the gable end of the main front to the left and a single-and-a-half-storey section to the right and a single-and-a-half-storey service wing projecting further to the right. A mullioned and transomed stair window is set into the gable. A porch intersects the front; the doorway is three-pointed arched and has a six-panel timber door. A curved and corniced parapet rises above the eaves, incorporating a leaded fixed window above the stair. A bipartite mullioned window sits at ground floor level in the bay to the right.

The southeast elevation consists of two blank, intersecting gables, the left one slightly projecting. The southwest (rear) elevation is also asymmetrical, with two main bays. The left bay is slightly gabled and advanced, with the service wing projecting at ground level. A four-light window is situated at ground level in the right bay, with two smaller windows above and a bipartite window to the right.

The windows throughout are timber sash and case, with plate glass lower sashes on the front elevation. The roof is covered in purple slate with terracotta ridge tiles, overhanging eaves, exposed rafter ends, and cast-iron gutters and downpipes. A dormer window with a slate-hung timber body is set into the northwest roof pitch. The chimney stacks are harled and corniced, topped with red, circular, battered cans. The principal gables are finished with ashlar skew copes and block skew putts, with a wrought-iron weathercock at the apex of the northeast gable.

The interior retains many original features, including timber fire surrounds (mostly now infilled), a panelled entrance hall, a first-floor gallery with a timber balustrade, and a heavily beamed ceiling.

An outbuilding stands nearby; it is harled with a piend roof and features a rectangular plan. A bipartite window is centrally located on the northeast elevation, and a vertically-boarded timber door is centrally located on the southeast.

Boundary walls constructed from random rubble include a wall with a droved ashlar coping stone along Kilkerran Road, and stugged and droved square ashlar gatepiers with bases and domed caps. A random rubble retaining wall with a concrete coping stone runs along the rear, with cement-rendered and lined gatepiers and two-leaf vertically-boarded timber gates in the north wall.