Including Boundary Walls And Gatepiers, Bannachra

Bannachra villa, dating to 1861, is an 1860s villa, one of the better preserved examples on the Shore Road, and it retains its original coach house. The villa is a rectangular, three-bay, two-storey building with a gabled front, making a significant contribution to the streetscape along the shore. The central entrance has a basket-arched doorway framed with sandstone voussoirs. Above the doorway is a Tudor-arched window set within a half-dormer. To the left of the door is a tripartite window, above which is a false parapet decorated with pierced quatrefoil stonework. The first floor has a round-arched window. The gable on the right-hand side is unusual in that it does not project from the front of the house, but incorporates a canted bay window on the ground floor, a pierced quatrefoil parapet, and a hood-moulded tripartite window on the first floor. A greenhouse is attached to the south elevation. Behind the house is a single-storey, hipped roof projection.

The house appears largely as it did on the first edition Ordnance Survey map. A later extension to the rear of the coach house, shown on the second edition map, has since been removed. A window on the south elevation has recently been altered to create a doorway. The villa is constructed from painted rubble with sandstone dressings. It features a graded slate gabled roof, stone chimneys with polygonal clay cans, and timber sash and case windows, predominantly with plate glass, although some side windows have smaller, lying-pane glazing.

The coach house, a two-storey structure typical of the area, stands to the side of the villa. It shares arched features with the main house, including depressed voussoirs above the coach arch and a round-headed window on the first floor. The house is enclosed by rubble boundary walls, with a cast iron gate set into square-plan stone gatepiers. Access to the interior of the villa was not possible during a resurvey in 2004.