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Birken Hillock, Shore Road, Cove And Kilcreggan

A Category C Listed Building in Lomond North, Argyll and Bute

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.0088 / 56°0'31"N

Longitude: -4.8597 / 4°51'34"W

OS Eastings: 221809

OS Northings: 683230

OS Grid: NS218832

Mapcode National: GBR 08.TD7Y

Mapcode Global: WH2M2.B73F

Plus Code: 9C8Q245R+G4

Entry Name: Birken Hillock, Shore Road, Cove And Kilcreggan

Listing Name: Shore Road, Birken Hillock with Gatepiers and Boundary Wall

Listing Date: 8 September 1980

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389890

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43417

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200389890

Location: Cove and Kilcreggan

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Cove And Kilcreggan

Electoral Ward: Lomond North

Traditional County: Dunbartonshire

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Description

Post 1865, later 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay, gabled, rectangular-plan villa. Whinstone and sandstone rubble with polished red sandstone margins and dressings; chamfered reveals; base course, pilaster strips, raised cills.

W (MAIN) ELEVATION: 3-bay asymmetrical main block with single storey service block recessed to outer left. Gable slightly advanced to left, tripartite window at ground; broad, pointed-arch window at 1st floor, timber mullions and transoms. Narrow door to right, 2-leaf, half-glazed vestibule door; modern square wooden dormer above. Bipartite window at ground right, pointed arch window at 1st floor. Single storey block to outer left, tripartite window.

E ELEVATION: 3-bay, broad stair window directly under eaves off-centre to left; window immediately to ground right, window at ground to outer left. Single storey, half-piend block to outer right.

Plate glass timber sash and case on main elevation; 12-pane timber sash and case windows on rear elevation, 12-lying-pane stair window. Grey slate roof, lead flashings, bargeborad. Red sandstone corniced chimney stack, octagonal cans. Projecting eaves, exposed rafters, timber bargeboards.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: ashlar gatepiers with sunken panel, pyramidal cap on fluted consoles.

Statement of Interest

The house is not shown on the 1st edition map. The house is based on the design of Seymour Lodge of 1850 by Alexander Thomson and is one of a number of houses of this style along the Rosneath Road.

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