Redesdale, 10 Shore Road, Skelmorlie

Redesdale is an Italianate villa dating to around 1860, with a lower, roughly rectangular service wing attached to one side. The main house is two storeys with an attic, while the service wing is single-storey. It is characterised by deep, bracketed eaves, decorative M-gables on the east and west sides, arched window surrounds, a semicircular bay window on the west side, and an open gabled porch. The house is built of squared, snecked, tooled red sandstone, with polished ashlar dressings. A base course, string course, and cill course are present, and the window margins are plain ashlar.

The east (front) elevation has a central, M-gabled bay featuring a two-leaf timber panelled door with a round-arched fanlight and a bracketed porch with low side walls and timber columns with shaft rings. Below this are three windows at ground level to the left, a depressed-arch mezzanine window above, and two windows at the first floor with fan-shaped carving to the window heads. A slightly recessed bay to the right of the entrance features a tripartite window at ground level and a bipartite window at the first floor. The service wing to the left has four windows at ground level and two gabled dormers breaking the eaves to the attic.

The north elevation has one window at ground level and two windows at the first floor.

The west (garden) elevation has an unsympathetic late 20th century conservatory on a brick base, partially obscuring a bow window at ground level. The bow window has stone mullions, a dentilled eaves course under a painted metal roof, and decorative cast-iron balcony railings. Above the bow window is a bipartite window, and to the right on the first floor is another bipartite window with console-bracketed balcony. The former service wing is recessed to the right, with a mid 20th century lean-to conservatory and a gabled dormer to the attic.

The south elevation of the former service wing has a two-bay gable to the left with paired consoles supporting the eaves. A sandstone porch shelters a two-leaf timber panelled door with round-arched windows and console-bracketed eaves. A swept-roof section extends to the right, with a wallhead stack.

The main house has plate glass in timber sash and case windows, while the former service wing has non-traditional uPVC glazing. Short red sandstone stacks are topped with cream clay cans featuring decorative Greek-key bands, with some having red-clay topper cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are in place.

The interior includes a half-glazed timber panelled lobby door, barley-twist stair balusters, a tapered octagonal newel post with paterae, and a skylight over the stair. Decorative cornicing is found in the principal rooms, with plain cornices elsewhere, and timber panelled interior doors are used throughout.