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Latitude: 55.9842 / 55°59'3"N
Longitude: -4.8289 / 4°49'44"W
OS Eastings: 223612
OS Northings: 680416
OS Grid: NS236804
Mapcode National: GBR 09.VTCJ
Mapcode Global: WH2M2.SVP9
Plus Code: 9C7QX5MC+MC
Entry Name: Auchendarroch, Cove And Kilcreggan
Listing Name: Shore Road, Auchendarroch with Boundary Wall, Gates and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 8 September 1980
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389883
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43410
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Cove And Kilcreggan, Auchendarroch
ID on this website: 200389883
Location: Cove and Kilcreggan
County: Argyll and Bute
Town: Cove And Kilcreggan
Electoral Ward: Lomond North
Traditional County: Dunbartonshire
Tagged with: House
Possibly William Motherwell, mid 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay Italianate villa, rectangular-plan with bowed rear jamb. Honey-coloured sandstone ashlar with ashlar margins and dressings; harled side and rear elevations. Base course; band course; projecting bracketted lead eaves canopy; stop-chamfered arrises; depressed arch windows on principal floor, rusticated quoins.
S (MAIN) ELEVATION: swept, canted, full-height bay, concave facets, to outer right. Entrance bay to left, shallow corniced porch with Triglyph-detailed frieze, blocking course, depressed arch opening, rusticated keystone, shallow pierced arch on right and left return, 2-leaf panelled door; bipartite window at 1st floor. 3-stage, square tower to outer left, 2-storey, tripartite projecting bay, bipartite window at upper stage.
E ELEVATION: harled and lined; bipartite windows to outer right and left, blank wall to outer left.
W ELEVATION: tower to outer right, bipartite window at upper stage to right; 2 bay block to outer left, window to left, bipartites to outer left.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: rough harled with sandstone margins. Windows to outer right and left at upper floor; wallhead stack at centre, canted slate-hung dormer to right and left. Single storey bowed jamb at centre, door and window on E and W elevations; modern stair leading to flatted accommodation on W elevation.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows; 12-pane sash and case dormer windows. Grey slate roof with lead flashings, coped wallhead stacks, octagonal cans.
INTERIOR: half-glazed, etched, vestibule door; enclosed stair; room to right off hall decorative plasterwork, floral rosette, plain block marble fireplace. Stair exposed in upper flat, entered via single storey jamb, cast-iron balusters, wooden rail; stained glass roof lighting upper landing, stair, figurative scenes of hunter, fisher, chemist.
BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: low whinstone wall with ashlar saddleback coping; square pier with stop-chamfered arrises, swept flat cap; decorative cast-iron gate with circle motifs; similar pedestrian gate to W.
Auchendarroch is now flatted. The house is shown on the 1st edition map. Conservation work was carried out on the house in 1993/94.
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