Ardmay House

Ardmay House is a 2-storey, asymmetrical gabled villa built in 1853, with additions by A N Paterson in 1922, including a tower on the west elevation. The exterior features white-painted render, a base course, quoin strips, chamfered reveals, and decorative bargeboards.

On the northeast elevation, the 1922 addition includes a gabled wood and glass porch to the left of center, supported by carved colonnettes, with a slate-hung gablehead above. There is a small dormer breaking the eaves to the outer left and a piend-roofed dormer to the outer right. The broad 2-bay gable on the outer right has a full-height bow window with a lead roof, a bipartite window at ground left, and a single window above, along with a narrow ventilation slit at the center of the gablehead.

The west elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a crowstepped gable with the 1922 round tower abutting to the outer right. It has a sandstone eaves band and a sunk-chamfered surround with a boarded door and a large 8-pane rectangular fanlight above. A carved sandstone plaque is positioned above, bordered by dwarf colonnettes, displaying a datestone and the monogram WGB 1922. There is a blank trefoil panel at the center of the gablehead, with a window at both ground and first floor to the outer left, and a modern wrought-iron balcony. The narrow bay to the outer right includes a sandstone pedimented dormer breaking the eaves above the first-floor window, with another window at ground level.

The southeast elevation features an M-gable obscured by modern flat-roofed additions at ground level. There is a canted window to the outer left of the left gable and a bipartite window to the right. A canted, ogee-roofed tower is located to the left of the outer right gable, topped with a lead finial. The side elevation has an M-gable with bipartite and single windows, and a lower wing to the outer left. Most windows are modern uPVC, except for the road elevation, which retains timber 4-pane sash and case windows and 4-pane lying-pane windows. The roof is slate, with sandstone coped ridge stacks and octagonal cans.

Inside, the vestibule door features etched glass, leading into a square-plan hall accessed through a round-headed arch supported by a carved wooden colonnette. To the left is a similar alcove with a later organ built into the space. The interior includes dark wood linenfold panelling, a wooden chimneypiece, and 4-panelled wooden doors.

The property is also marked by large gatepiers on pedestal bases, topped with shaped corniced caps and facetted finials.