Cove Castle

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 08/09/1990 Local Authority Argyll And Bute Planning Authority Argyll And Bute Burgh Cove And Kilcreggan NGR NS 22243 81921 Coordinates 222243, 681921 — James Sellars, 1867. 3-storey, asymmetrical, rectangular-plan, Scots Baronial house. Stugged squared and snecked sandstone with polished stone margins and dressings. Base course; string course; crowstepped gables. N (MAIN) ELEVATION: asymmetrical, 2 bays, curved wall to outer right, corbelled to square at upper stage. Gabled porch at ground right, angle buttressed, roll-moulded arris, ashlar saw-tooth coped roof; ashlar coping to gable, ball finial. Deeply-moulded, round-headed door, outer rope-moulded archivolt; 2-leaf panelled door; Minton tiles, vestibule cast-iron door, glazed. Sandstone armorial plaque to right of porch, fish consuming fish (?) on geometric background of interlocking circles. 3 ascending round-headed under stair lights at ground to left, large, stepped-cill, transomed and mullioned stair window responding directly above, roll-moulded string course running from upper moulding of outer right corner steps to form hoodmould; knotted label stop; window at 2nd floor, apex stack; narrow window outer right at principal floor, crowstepped gabled dormerhead above. Lean-to, crowstepped bay to outer left, arrowslit at centre. S (REAR) ELEVATION: asymmetrical. Crowstepped gable to left with rounded stair turret interlocking at outer left corner, corbelled to square bastion at upper stage (see W elevation). Windows symmetrically disposed at gable, 2 narrow windows at ground, tripartite window at 1st floor, bipartite window at 2nd floor. Recessed block to outer right, window at 2nd floor, timber bargeboarded dormer above. Low, lean-to, 2-storey block in re-entrant angle (former service block)

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.