Coach House

Fairy Knowe is a mid-19th century villa, likely designed by Charles Wilson, a prominent Glasgow architect, and is considered among the finest villas in Blairmore. It enjoys a prominent location with views over the Firth of Clyde. The house dates to approximately 1855 and is built in a cottage style incorporating Jacobean details.

The villa is roughly rectangular with a pitched roof and a gable front. The front (east) elevation features a slightly projecting central gable with a canted bay and a quatrefoil traceried parapet. To the left of the gable is a panelled timber door within a roll-moulded surround, accompanied by a window. To the right, a rectangular bay contains a tripartite window surmounted by a half-dormer. The windows have strapwork pediments, and the central gable and dormer are finished with ring-drip bargeboards. There are two small extensions at the rear; the one on the north side is original, while the one on the right is a later addition.

Internally, original joinery and doors remain, including one with painted glass, alongside a fine panelled plasterwork ceiling and a Tudor-arched stone fireplace. The building is constructed from buff sandstone ashlar to the front, with rubble to the sides and rear. The roof is covered with graded grey slate, with stone stacks topped with polygonal clay cans. The windows are timber sash and case, primarily with 12 panes at the rear and 4 panes at the front.

A roadside coach house, also with a pitched roof, is constructed of rubble and features a square-headed coach door, a basket-arched window above, a blocked archway to the side, and accommodation on the first floor. Access is provided through a cast iron gate set within rubble gatepiers with quartz rubble capstones. Rubble boundary walls enclose the property. The main entrance, located to the south, incorporates cast iron gates and castellated square-plan gatepiers. A sundial with a boulder base and urns on pedestals stands in front of the house.