Description

Dated 1883. Large asymmetrical mansion house with Scots
baronial detailing. 2 storey and attic over raised basement.
Yellow ashlar with polished red sandstone dressings and
band courses. South elevation: projecting porch at
west corner covering steps leading to door in raised ground
floor. Elliptical-arched doorway in shallow billet moulded
panel, datestone in ball-finialed, pedimented gable.
Gabled bay above door corbelled over ground floor, smaller
gabled bay to right of tall, corbelled stack with shafted
flues. Recessed bay at left, cut back at 1st floor with
boldly corbelled canted attic bay. Windows on all elevations
mainly mullion and transom at ground, mullioned above;
some 3-light attic windows. West elevation: gabled bay at
right with corbelled, slender, engaged columns flanking
1st floor and attic. Conical-roofed round tower at north
with door on north-east face. East elevation: large
projecting stair tower, with corners chamfered and corbelled
to square at upper level. Large mullioned and transomed 1st
floor window to left. Large grouped brick stacks, and slate
roofs.
L-plan single storey and loft stable block to north linked
to house by depressed-arched entrance. Variety of square-
headed door and window openings on courtyard elevations,
2 gabled loft entrances above. West elevation with
single and mullioned windows, banded courses of masonry and
1 swept-roofed and 2 piended dormers. Small finialed
ventilator, brick stack and steeply piended slate roof.
Lodge: probably circa 1883. L-plan. Single storey. Squared
red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Raised on
plinth, door and windows all with roll-moulded jambs,
windows mostly with gabled heads. Door with canopy recessed
on south elevation, and low, modern, flat-roofed 3-bay
extension to east. Ridge stack, and steep pitch piended
slate roof.
Square-plan chamfered gatepiers have ball finials on curved
plinths. Decorative cast-iron gates with ogival detailing.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Danefield, Greenock Road, Largs at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17831055

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability