Seafield House, 86 Eglinton Road, Ardrossan

1st house 1820, substantially rebuilt 1858 by Thomas

Gildard, tower at rear added 1881. Scottish Baronial.

2 storeys, 5 bays to south front. Painted stugged ashlar.

Central bay with crowstepped gable, 2 flanking bays with

decorative wall head gables. Advanced western bay with

crowstepped gable and 2-storey 5-light canted bay.

Eastern bay in shallow projection with corbelled turret

in re-entrant angle; crowstepped gable. 4-storey entrance

turret in western re-entrant angle with roll-moulded

dressings to door, string courses, narrow windows, boldly

carved arms, crests and devices; nailhead decoration in

frieze; cornice, conical roof with banded patterns in the

slate; tall weather vane.

West elevation: 3 asymmetrical bays, the northern advanced

and corbelled above ground storey; crowstepped. Tall French

mansard tower with iron balcony. Slate roof. Stairhall

of 1858.