Stablecourt, Strabane House, Brodick, Arran

Probably George Paterson of Hamilton Estates Office, Hamilton, dated 1883; additions to rear in style of Sir J J Burnet, circa 1900; stablecourt dated 1887. 2-storey, asymmetrical L-plan, large Picturesque villa. Stugged and snecked pink rubble sandstone, ashlar dressings, grey slate gabled roof. Base course; deep bracketted eaves with moulded bargeboards and finialled gables, decorative hammer braces and king post trusses; mostly single and bipartite 4-pane sash and case windows, tripartite canted and projecting windows to rear additions; corniced ridge stacks.

FRONT ELEVATION: 4-bay. Gabled entrance porch at 2nd bay from left in re-entrant angle, window, panelled door to right return with fanlight and shouldered doorcase, bipartite to right with initial panel at lintel, dormerheaded window above and dormer to left; gable advanced to left, canted window with string course and date panel, 1st floor chamfered to square at gablehead; gable advanced to far right, corniced projecting window at ground floor, bipartite at outer right with window, bipartite with corniced hoodmould at right return.

REAR GABLE: gable to left with gabled porch and various windows, gabled wing advanced to right in 2 stepped sections with porch, door and various windows; later (circa 1900) bay at transverse angle with various doors and windows, catslide dormer, ashlar-coped skews with wallhead kneelers.

SIDE ELEVATION: principal gable to right, bipartite window to ground floor, bipartite stair window, single window to 1st floor; two 2-bay wings recessed to left with various windows, gable of transverse bay at far left.

INTERIOR: not seen.

STABLECOURT: single storey, L-plan stablecourt to rear of house; stugged and snecked pink rubble sandstone, piended grey slate roof. Curvilinear-gabled porch to principal elevation, various doors and windows, piended dormer.

OUTBUILDING: single-storey, rectangular-plan, detached outbuilding forming third side of stable court; stugged and snecked pink rubble sandstone, slate roof, gambrel at one end. Fixed multi-pane windows, coped ridge stack, various roof vents.