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Latitude: 55.9514 / 55°57'5"N
Longitude: -4.6204 / 4°37'13"W
OS Eastings: 236479
OS Northings: 676257
OS Grid: NS364762
Mapcode National: GBR 0J.Y5YX
Mapcode Global: WH3NJ.0N2X
Plus Code: 9C7QX92H+HR
Entry Name: Ardoch, Cardross
Listing Name: Cardross, Ardoch with Garden Wall, Gatepiers and Boundary Wall
Listing Date: 14 May 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 330336
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB129
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Cardross, Ardoch
ID on this website: 200330336
Location: Cardross
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Helensburgh and Lomond South
Parish: Cardross
Traditional County: Dunbartonshire
Tagged with: House
Circa 1780 with mid 19th century tower addition and alterations. Single storey symmetrical entrance front with 2-stage tower, 2-storey at rear. Painted stucco with painted ashlar margins and dressings. Base course to front. Architraved openings at ground.
SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-stage low square entrance tower at centre splayed wings. Tower with round-arched entrance at ground, moulding, roundel moulding in squinches; tripartite half-glazed door slightly recessed; tripartite window at upper stage; piended roof, weathervane finial. Bipartite window at ground and 1st floor of returns. Flanking bays, windows on each elevation splayed half-piended corner bays.
SE ELEVATION: single storey range attached to 2-storey, 4-bay block. French door at ground to outer left, large, fixed 12-pane fanlight above; 2 brass plaques in blank bay to right; inscribed "presented to Don Roberto from the Argentinian government", lower plaque dated 1937, upper from 1975; windows in bay to outer right symmetrically disposed. Windows symmetrically disposed at 1st floor, blank bay at penultimate right.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows, 12-pane sash and case window on 2-storey block at rear.
INTERIOR: not seen 1994.
GARDEN WALL: red brick wall to E of house, brick buttresses at regular intervals; ashlar slab coping.
BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: ashlar gatepiers with stop-chamfered arrises, pyramidal caps. Rubble wall with harl-pointing, ashlar slab coping.
Robert Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore acquired estate in 1770 and built Ardoch Cottage a Georgian Colonial style cottage with splayed wings. The central tower is a later addition. Not to be confused with Ardoch House, which has been demolished.
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