Croftmohr House, 15 The Crescent, Skelmorlie, North Coast and Cumbraes, North Ayrshire

Entry Name: Croftmohr House, 15 The Crescent, Skelmorlie

Listing Name: Skelmorlie Village 15 the Crescent Croftmohr House and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 29 August 1985

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 339129

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7284

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200339129

Location: Largs

County: North Ayrshire

Electoral Ward: North Coast and Cumbraes

Parish: Largs

Traditional County: Ayrshire

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Description

H E Clifford, architect. Built circa 1904. Large, 2-storey

suburban villa in arts and crafts manner. Stugged red ashlar

with polished dressings: mostly harled above ground floor:

some Timber framed gables. Deeply recessed rectangular door

in asymmetrical 3-bay south elevation, splayed reveals with roll-moulding and Tudor-arched doorway; canted and corbelled

oriel above linked at left to tall projecting stack; 2 small

rectangular lights in gabled left bay; 1st floor bipartite

above. West elevation: 4 irregular bays, 2 gabled, the left

with bowed projection; long, mullioned windows. East

elevation: triple-gabled, with roof swept at left (gabled

wing to right, long mullioned window to each floor, and

tall, mullioned and transomed stair window. Coped end and

axial stacks; slate roofs with deeply projecting eaves.

Interior: wooden panelled entrance hall and ground floor

front rooms: room to south has tall chimney piece with Dutch

tiles over fireplace and flanking painted and leaded glass

panels.

Stugged and snecked red ashlar gatepiers are corniced, with

domed caps. Garden wall has canted south west corner, with depressed-arched gateway.

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