Including Gates And Gatepiers, Cemetery House And Offices, Dalry Road

J & J Armour of Irvine, dated 1907. Single-storey, asymmetrical, gabled and crowstepped Scots Baronial cemetery lodge and waiting room with distinctive stylised entrance porch rising above wallhead. Roughcast cement with smooth margins. Canted bay windows. Later flat-roofed extension to SW.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: tall, corbelled parapet to canted entrance porch set in re-entrant angle to NE bearing carved shield with 1907 date above and round oculus window to left.

Single-storey gabled waiting room extension to SW with slatted timber bench around 2 walls. Flat, round-arched cast-iron drinking fountain fastened to SW exterior wall with semicircular basin and attached drinking vessel.

Predominantly replacement non-traditional windows and door. Grey slates, gablehead and ridge stacks. Beak skewputts

INTERIOR: seen, 2008. Original room plan largely extant. Some cornicing.

GATES AND GATEPIERS: to E of house. Imposing set of red-coloured sandstone ball-finialled square-plan carriage gatepiers with flanking pedestrian gatepiers and flanking convex quadrants with further gatepiers. Base courses, highly decorative capitals with shields. Decorative iron gates with curvilinear patterns; iron railings to low quadrant walls and tall boundary wall to street with red saddleback coping.