Danefield, Greenock Road, Largs

Danefield is a large asymmetrical mansion house dated 1883, located on Greenock Road in Largs. It features Scots baronial detailing and is built over two storeys and an attic, with a raised basement. The exterior is constructed of yellow ashlar with polished red sandstone dressings and band courses.

On the south elevation, there is a projecting porch at the west corner that covers the steps leading to the door on the raised ground floor. The elliptical-arched doorway is set in a shallow billet moulded panel, topped with a datestone in a ball-finialed, pedimented gable. Above the door, a gabled bay is corbelled over the ground floor, with a smaller gabled bay to the right of a tall, corbelled stack featuring shafted flues. To the left, there is a recessed bay that is cut back at the first floor, showcasing a boldly corbelled canted attic bay. The windows on all elevations are mainly mullion and transom at the ground floor, with some mullioned windows above and a few three-light attic windows.

The west elevation includes a gabled bay on the right, flanked by slender, engaged columns that are corbelled at the first floor and attic. A conical-roofed round tower is located at the north, featuring a door on its north-east face. The east elevation has a large projecting stair tower with chamfered corners that are corbelled to a square at the upper level, alongside a large mullioned and transomed window to the left. The house also features large grouped brick stacks and slate roofs.

To the north, there is an L-plan single storey and loft stable block that is linked to the house by a depressed-arched entrance. This stable block has a variety of square-headed door and window openings on the courtyard elevations, with two gabled loft entrances above. The west elevation features single and mullioned windows, banded courses of masonry, and one swept-roofed and two piended dormers. It also includes a small finialed ventilator, a brick stack, and a steeply piended slate roof.

The lodge, likely built around the same time as the house, is an L-plan single storey structure made of squared red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. It is raised on a plinth, with doors and windows that feature roll-moulded jambs and mostly gabled heads. The door, which has a canopy, is recessed on the south elevation, and there is a low, modern, flat-roofed three-bay extension to the east. The lodge has a ridge stack and a steep pitch piended slate roof.

The entrance is marked by square-plan chamfered gatepiers topped with ball finials on curved plinths, and decorative cast-iron gates with ogival detailing.