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Coach House, South Park, Shore Road, Cove

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

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.0057 / 56°0'20"N

Longitude: -4.8544 / 4°51'15"W

OS Eastings: 222121

OS Northings: 682870

OS Grid: NS221828

Mapcode National: GBR 08.TMFF

Mapcode Global: WH2M2.D9LT

Plus Code: 9C8Q244W+76

Entry Name: Coach House, South Park, Shore Road, Cove

Listing Name: Shore Road, South Park with Outbuilding

Listing Date: 8 September 1980

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389953

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43466

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200389953

Location: Cove and Kilcreggan

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Cove And Kilcreggan

Electoral Ward: Lomond North

Traditional County: Dunbartonshire

Tagged with: Carriage house

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Description

Post 1865. 2-storey, 3-bay gabled, L-plan cottage villa. Honey-coloured sandtone ashlar front, harled side and rear elevations; ashlar margins and dressings; quoin strips.

Southwest (main) elevation: 3-bay main block with single storey harled bay to outer left. Broad bay with narrow gable to left, canted, corniced window at ground; bipartite round-headed windows at 1st floor. Battered Greco style round-headed door, channelled voussoirs, plate glass fanlight, largely glazed vestibule door; small segmental-headed eyelet dormer above. Large window at ground to outer right, consoled cornice; gabled, canted dormerhead, round-headed centre window. Single storeyed block to outer left, large gabled window breaking eaves, gabled on left return.

Southeast elevation: 5 bays comprised of broad 2 bays with 3-bay symmetrical block to right. Broad asymmetrical gable to outer left, window at ground left, glazed door with window above to right of centre. 3 gabled bays to right, decorative bargeboards, gable at centre higher; windows symmetrically disposed at ground and 1st floor, round-headed windows at 1st floor.

Northwest elevation: single storey block against gable of house, various openings. Plate glass and 4-pane timber sash and case windows; grey slate roof, lead flashings, low coped rendered ridge stack.

Interior: not seen 1993.

Outbuildings: later 19th century gabled coach house block with circa 1930s doors with enlarged openings at ground, round-headed window in gablehead. Block of single storey stores to left, half-glazed doors, piend-roofed.

Statement of Interest

South Park is not shown on the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map. The house is similar in style to Seymour lodge (LB43465) designed by Alexander Thomson. There are modern houses built on the ground to the southeast.

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

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