Walls And Gatepiers, Gas Holder, Cottage, Including Gas House, Gas Works, Culzean Castle Estate

Circa 1840. Irregularly shaped walled enclosure on 2 levels, with entrance to W, gas house to SW, remains of gas holder to E, and cottage, on upper level, to SE. Located at shore beside old harbour, to E of Culzean Castle.

GAS HOUSE: single storey, rectangular-plan, pitched roofed, astylar classical retort house, now a museum. Random rubble with ashlar dressings. N ELEVATION: pedimented gable with escutcheon in tympanum. Arched entrance. W ELEVATION: window with external timber shutters. E and S ELEVATIONS: blind. 4-pane timber sash and case bipartite window with iron columnar mullion. Panelled timber double doors with fanlight. Slate roof. Tall tapering chimney stack of mixed stock bricks mounted on ashlar base. INTERIOR (seen 2010): single chamber with display of replica retorts and equipment. Flagstone floor. Painted rubble walls.

COTTAGE: single storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, castellated style, former gas works manager's house, with crowstep gables and corbelled roofless pepperpot corner turrets, now a museum. Random rubble with tooled ashlar dressings and ashlar base course. 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Vertically boarded timber door. Pitched slate roof. Single ashlar stack on each gable. INTERIOR (seen 2010): combed ceiling. Plasterboard walls and ceiling, vertically boarded timber doors, flagstone floor. No discernible original features.

GAS HOLDER: stone-lined cylindrical tank of tooled ashlar set into paved podium. Mounting for gas holder.

WALLS AND GATEPIERS: random rubble with saddleback coping on W and crenellation on N side. Square plan ashlar gate piers with flat pyramidal copes.