Railings And Gates, Howebank Including Boundary Walls, Hall Road, Lochgoilhead

Howebank is a small cottage-style villa built in the 1890s, part of a group of six villas and three terraced cottages that likely served as a speculative development. It is the least altered example of this late 19th-century group and positively contributes to the character of Loch Goil.

The house has a rectangular plan and is a single storey with an attic, featuring a single-storey kitchen outshot with a piend roof at the rear. The front elevation, which faces east, has three bays and includes central two-leaf storm doors topped with a two-light fanlight. The left bay features a rectangular bay window with a piended lead roof and narrow timber fretwork trim, while the top panes are glazed with colored quarries. The two attic windows are set in large timber-boarded gables. The front elevation has raised sandstone long and short quoins and margins, indicating an intention to harl, but it is built to courses rather than random rubble, suggesting it was designed to be visually appealing.

At the rear, a central dormer-headed window breaks the eaves and is adorned with colored margin glazing and acid-etched center panes. The kitchen outshot has a modern window.

Inside, the ground floor rooms feature decorative plasterwork, and the turned timber stair balusters and newel add to the interior's character.

The materials used include rubble built to courses on the front, random rubble on the north and rear elevations, and a harled south elevation. The raised long and short sandstone quoins and smooth sandstone margins on the front, along with droved sandstone margins on the sides and rear, enhance the building's aesthetic. The windows are primarily 8-pane sash and case, and the pitched roof has overhanging sparred eaves covered with graded slates. The gable-head stacks are made of painted coped ashlar with circular cans.

The boundary walls to the west are rendered and topped with Art Nouveau cast-iron railings. The property features painted square plan gatepiers and a strapwork style cast iron pedestrian gate.