17 West Road, Irvine

17 West Road in Irvine is a late 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay house designed in an asymmetrical gabled style with Tudor details. The front facade features squared and snecked sandstone, while the sides and rear are constructed of rubble stone, with ashlar dressings and a moulded string course above the ground floor. The building has quoined ends.

The west elevation, which is the principal facade, has a central entrance door set within a pointed arch surround, complete with deep splayed reveals and a hoodmould. Above the door, there are bipartite lancet windows on the first floor and a gabled dormerhead that breaks the eaves. To the right, there is a bay with a bipartite window featuring a lugged head at ground level, a single window with plain margins above it, and a gabled dormerhead. The left bay is advanced and includes hoodmoulded tripartite windows on both the ground and first floors, as well as blind slit windows with hoodmoulds in the gablehead.

The north elevation is a blank gable end, while the south elevation is also a gable end. The east elevation consists of four bays with rectangular openings that have chamfered margins. The outer bay on the right has windows on both the ground and first floors, along with a gabled dormerhead above. The outer bay on the left is symmetrical but features a later brick addition at ground level, which has a pitched roof, door, and window. The inner bay on the right includes a slit window at ground level and a tall window that lights the staircase above, with an entrance door to the right that has a later brick-built porch with a piended roof and glazing. The inner bay on the left has a window on the ground floor and a small window above.

The glazing is a mix of timber sash windows and modern replacements. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring skews, corbelled gablet skewputts, and an ashlar gablehead stack on the north side, with a brick stack on the south side. There are cast-iron finials on the west-facing gables.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1996. The boundary walls include a brick wall with stone coping on the south side, rubble stone on the east, and a painted and coursed wall on the west. There is a flat-roofed brick outbuilding to the northeast and a gable-ended brick garage, which may have been a former stable and carriage house, at the east entrance.