Arnhall, Whiting Bay, Arran

Arnhall is a large, late 19th-century villa of rectangular plan, with a two-story and attic design and single-story projections. It is constructed with bull-faced cream sandstone facing, ashlar dressings, rusticated quoins, and red brick to the inner walls of the service wing. The roof is slate, with a piended form. Features include a base course, a lintel course to the ground floor, eaves courses with bracketed eaves, two-pane timber sash and case windows, wide border-glazed upper sashes with tinted glass, chamfered margins and mullions, corniced and shouldered stacks rising through the eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The entrance elevation, on the right-hand side, has a large, single-story porch with a tripartite, partially glazed door and tripartite windows to its returns. The porch’s outer section is open with two Doric columns and a corniced, dentilled entablature. To the left of the porch is a full-height, transomed tripartite stair window above a single window at ground level, with additional windows on the ground floor and first floor; a door has been created from the window to the left. Modern rooflights have been added.

The front (garden) elevation features a bipartite window at centre, formed from a previous window, with a decorative cast- and wrought-iron balcony above. A two-story, four-light canted window is situated to the right, with a timbered gable above it, and a two-story, three-light canted angle bay with a finialled octagonal roof is found to the left.

The left return elevation includes a single window to the centre left, with a door formed from a window above it and a further door giving access to the attic, both opening onto a fire escape. A two-story, four-light canted window with a finialled piended roof is on the left, and a modern conservatory adjoins the rear of the service wing on the far left. A canted angle bay is present on the right.

The rear elevation has a central door, three windows to the left, and two windows to the first floor. A single-story, L-plan service wing projects from the centre, masking a door and forming a small yard accessed between two pyramidal-capped gatepiers.

The interior of the villa remains largely unaltered and includes an impressive three-stage staircase with a curved landing, decorative balusters and newels, and some original fireplaces.

The stableblock, a single-story and attic, L-plan structure, is rendered with a piended slate roof and various modern dormers.