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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
Tagged with: House
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.
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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