Kirkconnell Lea

Built circa 1870. 2-storey, large villa, asymmetrical

elevations with advanced gables. Bull-faced red ashlar

with polished dressings, strings, corbelling, roll-mouldings

and margins. Variety of window openings, round, segmental

or square-headed, singly or grouped, some canted or in square projections. Octagonal turret full-height or corbelled at

or near outer angles, each with corbel table at eaves and

facetted slate roof with flat leaded cap. North-facing gable

has gabled porch in east re-entrant angle, west re-entrant

turret entrance with cast-iron guards in front of 1st floor

round-arched windows. Twin gables of lower service range

faces east. Bracketted eaves; gables with simple barge-boards

and framing; corniced stacks; slate roofs.

Square red ashlar gatepiers linked by low quadrant walls.

Wrought iron gates and railings.