Auchendennan House

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 08/09/1980 Local Authority Argyll And Bute Planning Authority Argyll And Bute Parish Bonhill National Park Loch Lomond And The Trossachs NGR NS 36837 83495 Coordinates 236837, 683495 — John Burnet, 1864-6 with additions 1902 A N Paterson. 3-storey, asymmetrical, rambling plan Baronial chateau. Stugged, squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar margins and dressings. Battered base course; roll-moulded and chamfered arrises; string course; advanced eaves. E (MAIN) ELEVATION: 4-bay with porte cochere advanced at outer left bay. PORTE COCHERE: A N Paterson, 1902. Scottish Renasissance. Round-arched coach openings, banded voussoirs; guttae in spandrels. Corner compound banded piers with applied fluted pilasters; ashlar turret-like caps, doric detailing, console finial. Strapwork parapet; pedimented heavily-detailed armorial plaque; ashlar rib vault, central boss with monogram JWJ. Round-arched entrance to porch proper, ashlar ribbing; roll-moulded basket-arched entrance door set within roll-moulded round-arch, decorative detail overdoor with faded date 1899. Stone seat to right of porch; roll-moulded shoulderd arch pedestrian access; urn balustraded parapet. 4-bay main block; advanced round-tower bay to outer right, battered base, window at centre ground; 3 closely-grouped windows at 1st floor, segmental-headed springing from paired banded colonnettes. 2 windows at upper floor, stepped string course for cill. Decorative pierced parapet supported on sandstone corbel course. Taller crowstepped bay to left, tripartite window at ground, 1st floor, that at ground smaller. Bipartite at upper floor, single window in attic gable, string-course stepped over window. 3-storey and attic pavilion-roofed bay advanced at penultimate left, stepped battered base, circul

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.