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Latitude: 55.9852 / 55°59'6"N
Longitude: -4.8373 / 4°50'14"W
OS Eastings: 223094
OS Northings: 680548
OS Grid: NS230805
Mapcode National: GBR 08.VZ4Q
Mapcode Global: WH2M2.NTQJ
Plus Code: 9C7QX5P7+33
Entry Name: Greenhouse, Aidenkyle House, Aidenkyle Road, Kilcreggan
Listing Name: Aidenkyle Road, Aidenkyle House with Balustrade, Greenhouses, Boundary Wall and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 26 January 1995
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389186
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42866
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Kilcreggan, Aidenkyle Road, Aidenkyle House, Greenhouse
ID on this website: 200389186
Location: Cove and Kilcreggan
County: Argyll and Bute
Town: Cove And Kilcreggan
Electoral Ward: Lomond North
Traditional County: Dunbartonshire
Tagged with: Greenhouse
Mid 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay, asymmetrical, rectangular-plan gabled Tudor detailed house. Painted harl with rusticated margins and dressings on main elevation, lime-washed over whinstone rubble on other elevations.
SE (MAIN) ELEVATION: broad gable advanced at centre, gabled porch with scalloped bargeboard off-centre to left at ground, step and platt to door framed by plinth wall, square die and urns; 2-leaf panelled door; window to right at ground; window at centre at 1st floor; blank plaque in gablehead. Bipartite window to outer left, recessed bay to right with balustraded area.
SW (GARDEN) ELEVATION: gable, full-height canted window on deep whinstone battered base; lunette window directly above in gablehead.
NW ELEVATION: gable to outer left; canted bay at ground on deep base, blocking course, decorative cast-iron balustrade; slender tripartite window at upper floor. 2-bay block recessed to right, door, 2 windows at ground; bipartite window to outer right, small window in outer left corner.
12-lying-pane timber sash and case glazing on main elevation; plate glass sash and case for remianing elevations. Grey slate roof with rooflights, lead flashings; broad, harled and coped wallhead stacks on sandstone bases.
INTERIOR: not seen 1993.
BALUSTRADE: decorative cast-iron balustrade running along high wall to NE of house marking higher ground on this side of site; Greek details, Anthemion and floral motifs.
GREENHOUSES: piend-roofed glasshouse with terracotta ridging to NE of site.
BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: tall rubble wall with semicircular rubble coping; rusticated ashlar gatepier with triangulated cap.
Listed Cat B on account of the very fine surviving cast-iron balustrade. Aidenkyle is shown on the 1st edition map. It shares similaritites with Claremont and Lovedale, built at the same time and listed separately.
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