Linkside, 58 Seabank Road, Nairn

Linkside Cottage, built between 1900 and 1901 with additions in 1905, is a two-storey and attic asymmetrical L-plan house designed in the Scottish Vernacular Revival style. It features corbelled corner turrets, crowsteps on the main gables, and projecting wings, with gabled dormerheads above some first-floor windows. The exterior is harled over rubble, finished with beach grit, and has bullfaced rubble dressings and crowsteps.

The main entrance is located at the center of the long northeast elevation, set within a bullfaced rubble wall. The first floor has a shallow corbelled and harled section with five symmetrically placed small windows, while the southeast cross wing has irregular fenestration. A tall cylindrical chimney is positioned at the short arm of the L, and the turret at the northeast corner has a conical roof topped with a lead finial. There is a curved recess with a seat and two raised wallhead gabled dormers. Most windows on the northeast elevation are small and feature four-pane glazing.

The southwest garden elevation mirrors the northeast with a corner turret on the left and a recessed entrance in the south cross wing, which has a stair window above that rises through the eaves to a segmental pediment. This elevation has regular 12-pane fenestration and gabled dormerheads on the first floor, all beneath a Welsh slate roof with a stone ridge.

To the north, harled walls screen the service area and connect the house to a garden loggia and a service cottage. The sunken garden adds to the setting. The service cottage, also designed by W R Davidson in 1918, is an asymmetrical single storey and attic structure, harled with bullfaced rubble dressings and crowsteps, featuring one piended dormer and deep moulded chimney copes similar to Linkside. It has a Welsh slate roof with a stone ridge.

A rubble boundary wall dating from around 1900 encircles the property, featuring a curved stone cope on the north, south, and west sides, and scalloped walling along Seabank Road to the east, which is harled with a stugged ashlar cope. Square stugged rubble gate piers with pyramidal caps complete the entrance.