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Kirklea, Cove And Kilcreggan

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

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9887 / 55°59'19"N

Longitude: -4.8496 / 4°50'58"W

OS Eastings: 222345

OS Northings: 680970

OS Grid: NS223809

Mapcode National: GBR 08.VNJ1

Mapcode Global: WH2M2.GQWV

Plus Code: 9C7QX5Q2+F5

Entry Name: Kirklea, Cove And Kilcreggan

Listing Name: Shore Road, Kirklea with Boundary Walls and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 8 September 1990

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389935

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43451

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Cove And Kilcreggan, Kirklea

ID on this website: 200389935

Location: Cove and Kilcreggan

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Cove And Kilcreggan

Electoral Ward: Lomond North

Traditional County: Dunbartonshire

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Description

Mid 19th century. 2-storey, asymmetrical, gabled villa. Harled with stugged sandstone margins and dressings. Base course; steeply pitched gables; projecting eaves, exposed rafters, wooden bargeboards.

Southwest (main) elevation: advanced gable to outer left, square, projecting bay at ground, battered base course, 2 windows; moulded brackets supporting square, cast-iron balcony above, canted bipartite window with canted slate roof at 1st floor, gable rising steeply capped by timber gablet at apex. Blank left and right returns except for blind recessed panel delineated by bracketted course turning corner at level of 1st floor. Lower, narrow entrance gable recessed to outer right, gabled porch at ground, diagonal buttresses, pointed arch door, boarded door; angled oriel on battered apron, coped roof.

Southeast elevation: blank wall to outer left, 4-bay block to outer right, tall bipartite window to left, pointed arched door with window at ground, quadripartite window at 1st floor above door; blank slightly advanced gable to outer right. Stable block to east, attached to villa by Tudor-arched garden gate.

Northwest elevation: blank return of gable to outer right, gable slightly advanced to left, corner windows at ground and 1st floor; lower blank block to outer left.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with lead flashings, plain bargeboards. Shouldered, rusticated, coped ridge stacks, octagonal cans, decorative cornice.

Interior: not seen 1993.

Boundary wall and gatepiers: low whinstone wall with rubble boulder coping. Rusticated piers, plinth, stop-chamfered arrises, octagonal head with pyramidal cap.

Statement of Interest

The villa is shown on the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map as Barons Hall and is similar in style to Seymour lodge (LB43465) designed by Alexander Thomson.

Minor updates to Description and Statement of Special Interest sections in 2017.

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