Croftmohr House, 15 The Crescent, Skelmorlie

Croftmohr House is a large, two-storey suburban villa built around 1904 to a design by H E Clifford, in the Arts and Crafts style. The exterior is constructed of stugged red ashlar with polished dressings, with the upper portion of the walls harled. Some gables are timber framed. The south elevation is asymmetrical with three bays and features a deeply recessed rectangular front door, which has splayed reveals with a roll moulding and a Tudor-arched doorway. Above the door is a canted oriel window, linked to a tall projecting chimney stack on the left. A gabled bay to the left contains two small rectangular windows. On the first floor, above this bay is a larger, bipartite window. The west elevation has four irregular bays, with two bays gabled. The left bay features a bowed projection, and the elevation is punctuated by long, mullioned windows. The east elevation is triple-gabled, with the roof swept downwards on the left. A gabled wing to the right has long, mullioned windows on each floor, alongside a tall, mullioned and transomed stair window. The building is topped with slate roofs and deeply projecting eaves, with coped end and axial stacks.

Inside, the entrance hall and front rooms on the ground floor are wood panelled. A room to the south contains a tall chimney piece with Dutch tiles above the fireplace, flanked by painted and leaded glass panels.

The stugged and snecked red ashlar gatepiers have corniced tops with domed caps, and the garden wall includes a canted southwest corner with a depressed-arched gateway.

Documentation of the house appeared in Academy Architecture in 1904, and the design was discussed in the minutes of the Ayrshire County Council’s Northern District Committee on 19 May 1905.