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Lodge, Auchengower, Cove

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

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.0137 / 56°0'49"N

Longitude: -4.8666 / 4°51'59"W

OS Eastings: 221398

OS Northings: 683794

OS Grid: NS213837

Mapcode National: GBR 07.T4PJ

Mapcode Global: WH2M2.63TN

Plus Code: 9C8Q247M+F8

Entry Name: Lodge, Auchengower, Cove

Listing Name: Shore Road, Auchengower Lodge with Gatepiers, Railings and Boundary Wall

Listing Date: 26 January 1995

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389885

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43412

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200389885

Location: Cove and Kilcreggan

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Cove And Kilcreggan

Electoral Ward: Lomond North

Traditional County: Dunbartonshire

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Description

Later 19th century. Single storey, L-plan, gabled Gothic lodge with Jacobean Baronial details en suite with villa of Auchengower. Whinstone and sandstone rubble, polished sandstone dressings and margins; chamfered reveals, lintel band with chip-carved floral details. Base course; quoins; eaves band. Projecting eaves supported on paired timber consoles at corners.

SW ELEVATION: narrow gable advanced to outer right, finial missing, slightly projecting bipartite window advanced at ground, bead cornice, coped roof with gablet motif, cast-iron brattishing, corner buttresses; window on left return. Gabled porch in re-entrant angle to left, decorative bargeboard, finial, modern reconstituted stone door, sandstone 3-centred arched pediment above, armorial details in pediment; narrow lancet on left return.

NW ELEVATION: gable with 2-tiered bargeboard, canted window with angled coped roof, gablet motif; porch recessed to right. Modern lean-to boarded bay with felt roof to outer left.

SE ELEVATION: 2 windows grouped to outer right, 8-pane sash and case, plate glass.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with bands of diaper and fish-scale patterns; lead flashings, raised coped, sandstone stack on SE elevation; tall, broad coped wallhead stack to NE.

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

BOUNDARY WALL, RAILINGS AND GATEPIERS: ashlar convex plinth wall with saddleback coping, decorative cast-iron railings between outer and inner gatepiers. Square gatepiers with stop-chamfered arrises, gabletted cornice, raised to gabletted cap.

Statement of Interest

The lodge is shown on the 2nd edition map. It is the lodge to Auchengower House which is listed separately.

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