Edgehill, Eastlands Road, Rothesay, Bute

Edgehill and Hillpark are a pair of double villas built in 1894 to a symmetrical classical design by John Duncan. They are prominently constructed of squared and snecked stugged yellow sandstone with polished sandstone dressings. The buildings are set upon a raised base with string courses and have corbelled corniced eaves. Polished quoins are present and full-height ashlar canted bays are incorporated. Chamfered openings and architraved cills are a feature, with corbelled cills at ground level in the central bays. Harl-pointed rubble is used at the sides and rear.

The East elevation (facing Edgehill Road) features a piended, single-storey porch with timber bracketed eaves and decorative cast-iron brattishing. A panelled timber door with a plate-glass fanlight is set within a segmental-arched, architraved door surround with a raised keystone. Single windows are arranged at first floor level; one aligned with the porch and another to the right. The West elevation (facing Hillpark) mirrors this arrangement, with a similar porch and a panelled door set in a re-entrant angle.

The North elevation displays single windows at ground and first floors within the two central bays. A projecting verandah extends beneath the first-floor windows, supported by paired cast-iron composite columns, foliate spandrels and a curvilinear parapet. Advanced bays to the outer left and right feature three-light canted windows at both ground and first floor levels. The South elevation has eight bays at ground level and four at first floor, with piended, single-storey additions extending from the right and left of centre.

Original two-pane timber sash and case windows are present to the front, while the rear features predominantly six-pane timber sash and case windows. The roofs are finished with graded grey slate, incorporating raised stone skews, corniced ridge and wallhead stacks, and octagonal cans. A slate-hung outbuilding is situated at the rear, with a coped ridge stack at centre and circular cans.

The interior retains original features including tiled vestibules, panelled timber doors, plaster cornices, timber skirting boards, and the original staircase. The outbuilding, originally a four-bay wash-house, has coped coursed sandstone ridge stack and two circular cans. A coped, part-rendered random rubble boundary wall runs along Eastlands Road, flanked by whitewashed square-plan gatepiers marking the entrance to Edgehill. Replacement cast-iron gates are positioned at the entrance to Hillpark.