Sylvania, Brodick Castle Estate

1. 2-storey, 3-bay, L-plan villa in Arran estate-style. Prominent gabled stone porch at re-entrant angle. Overhanging eaves with barge boards to gables. Pink hammer dressed sandstone in irregular courses, with ashlar dressings, to principal elevation. Plain irregular coursing to other elevations. Set within garden plot, to N of paddock, with principal elevation and entrance to S.

S ELEVATION: projecting bay at ground floor left with canted three-light bay window; bipartite window to right. Single breaking-eaves dormer to upper right. Bipartite window to upper left. Double leaf, vertically boarded door, within four-centred arch aperture to stone porch. Inner door panelled and half-glazed, with coloured textured glass. N ELEVATION: asymmetrical fenestration. Vertically boarded timber kitchen door to left and large door to coal store on right.

Timber sash and case windows with multi-paned upper sashes. Grey slates to roof, projecting bay and pitched porch roof. Stone chimney stacks with corniced coping.

INTERIOR (Seen 2010): timber stairs with turned balustrade of dark pine. Timber panelled doors (original). Timber fire surround with iron inset in drawing room. Cast iron fire surrounds of various designs in upper rooms. Fireplace, or range, has been removed from kitchen. Original timber fittings, including cupboards and architraves. Original plain plaster cornices in all rooms.