The Lookout, Shore Road, Lamlash, Arran

The Lookout is an earlier to mid 19th century villa, with later alterations and additions. It is a two-storey and attic, three-bay classical building, notable for its broad corner pilasters and Tudor Jacobean detailing, complemented by a single-storey, piend-roofed range at the rear. Later additions include a mansard roof and a canted porch to a secondary entrance. The building has a central, decorative wallhead gable.

Architecturally, it features a base course, a band course on the side elevations, and a string course on the facade between the ground and first floors. A moulded eaves course and blocking course are also present. The construction is primarily of squared and snecked pink sandstone, with a painted ashlar facade. Moulded window surrounds are featured on the ground floor, along with square-headed hoodmoulds over the ground floor openings. The rear of the building is harled with exposed ashlar margins.

The main (south-east) elevation has a central advanced bay with a two-leaf panelled door set in a cavetto surround, with a letterbox fanlight above. A bipartite window is located to the left, and a canted secondary entrance bay is on the right, featuring a door in the centre and flanking windows. Two bipartite swept dormers are visible in the attic. The northwest (rear) elevation is arranged with three bays and a wing at a right angle, featuring a single window on the ground floor to the left and a small, modern extension to the right. A central stair window and flanking windows are also present, with a central tripartite dormer and flanking rooflights in the attic. The southwest and northeast elevations each have a single window on the ground and first floors.

The windows are timber sash and case, with two-pane glazing in the upper sections and plate glass in the lower sections on the principal and side elevations. Original lying-pane glazing remains on the rear, consisting of four-pane upper and lower sashes. All dormer windows have plate glass. The roof is covered with graded, greyish-purple slates, with lead flashing to a platform section, flat-coped skews, and corniced gable end stacks topped with ten octagonal clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.

The interior was not inspected in 2002.

A pair of chamfered gatepiers, standing on square plinths with centrally raised octagonal caps, flank the entrance. A further gatepier is positioned to the right, with a gate (one half of a former double gate). A low, coped boundary wall runs along the front, and cast-iron spearhead railings and a gate are also present.