Edgehill, Eastlands Road, Rothesay, Bute

John Duncan, 1894. Symmetrical 2-storey, 4-bay classical style double villa grouped 1-2-1; advanced end bays; decorative cast-iron verandah spanning 2 central bays; projecting harled porches recessed to outer left and right. Predominantly squared and snecked stugged yellow sandstone; polished sandstone dressings. Raised base and string courses; corbelled timber corniced eaves. Polished quoins; full-height ashlar canted bays; chamfered openings; architraved cills; corbelled cills at ground in central bays. Harl-pointed rubble at sides and rear. Piended single storey, harl-pointed rubble outbuilding to rear; stugged yellow sandstone quoins; stugged long and short rubble dressings to openings.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION EDGEHILL: piended single storey porch at centre comprising timber bracketed eaves, decorative cast-iron brattishing. 2-leaf timber panelled door centred within; plate-glass fanlight; segmental-arched architraved door-surround, raised keystone; single (narrow) window aligned at 1st floor; single window at ground off-set to left of centre; single window at 1st floor in bay to outer right.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION HILLPARK: piended single storey porch as above; single (narrow) window aligned at 1st floor. 2-leaf timber panelled door as above set in re-entrant angle to left.

N (FRONT) ELEVATION: single windows at ground and 1st floors in 2 central bays; projecting verandah beneath 1st floor windows comprising paired cast-iron composite columns, foliate spandrels, curvilinear parapet detailing. 3-light canted windows at both floors in advanced bays to outer left and right.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: 8-bay at ground, 4-bay at 1st floor. Piended single storey additions at ground off-set to right and left of centre respectively; single windows in remaining bays at both floors.

2-pane timber sash and case windows to front; predominantly 6-pane timber sash and case windows to rear. Graded grey slate piend; raised stone skews; corniced ridge and wallhead stacks; octagonal cans. Slate-hung outbuilding at rear; coped ridge stack at centre; circular cans.

INTERIOR: tiled vestibules; timber panelled doors; plaster cornice work; timber skirting boards; original stairs.

OUTBUILDING: 4-bay former wash-house. Blind single opening in bay to outer right; single doors in remaining bays to left. Coped coursed sandstone ridge stack at centre; 2 circular cans.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: coped part-rendered random rubble wall to Eastlands Road; whitewashed square-plan gatepiers flanking entrance to Edgehill; replacement cast-iron gates to Hillpark.