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Moorepark Cottage, Moorepark House, Brooks Road, Cardross

A Category C Listed Building in Cardross, Argyll and Bute

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9659 / 55°57'57"N

Longitude: -4.6714 / 4°40'17"W

OS Eastings: 233358

OS Northings: 677984

OS Grid: NS333779

Mapcode National: GBR 0H.X0K8

Mapcode Global: WH2MC.69SV

Plus Code: 9C7QX88H+8C

Entry Name: Moorepark Cottage, Moorepark House, Brooks Road, Cardross

Listing Name: Cardross, Brook's Road, Moorpark Cottage

Listing Date: 23 February 1996

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389193

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42900

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200389193

Location: Cardross

County: Argyll and Bute

Electoral Ward: Helensburgh and Lomond South

Parish: Cardross

Traditional County: Dunbartonshire

Tagged with: Cottage

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Description

1864 villa with single storey service wing at rear. 2-storey, 3-bay, gabled, rectangular-plan block. Ashlar-fronted with stugged, squared and snecked pink sandstone; ashlar margins and dressings. Base course

SW (MAIN) ELEVATION: door at centre ground, now masked by timber gabled porch, half-glazed vestibule door; small window above. Corniced tripartite projecting window to outer right, scroll-flanked round- headed window at 1st floor; gablehead breaking eaves over. Gable to outer left, full-height canted bay, bracketed roof; blind arrowslit in gablehead; attached to later addition to outer left (listed separately).

SE ELEVATION: 2 windows symmetrically disposed at 1st floor; single storey, half-piend roof block projecting at ground.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: gable breaking over stained glass window at centre; round-headed window to left, window at ground; windows barred. Long single storey rubble service block. 4-pane timber sash and case windows; grey slate roof, red tile ridging; coped ashlar ridge stacks, circular cans.

Statement of Interest

The house was made a semi-detached villa by the addition of a further villa, Moorpark House, in 1892. Moorpark House and the former coach house, Moorpark, are listed separately.

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