Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

ASCOG, BALMORY ROAD, BALMORY HOUSE (FORMER LAIDLAW MEMORIAL HOME), GATELODGELB44985

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
20/02/1998
Local Authority
Argyll And Bute
Planning Authority
Argyll And Bute
Parish
Kingarth
NGR
NS 10529 62895
Coordinates
210529, 662895

Description

Later 19th century. Single storey, 3-bay gatelodge with flat-roofed, single bay rendered addition to outer right; square-plan columnar porch off-set to left of centre. Squared and snecked yellow sandstone; sandstone ashlar dressings. Raised, ashlar base course; corbelled eaves. Shouldered-arched panelled bays; shouldered-arched, architraved surrounds to openings; stylised corbels beneath projecting cills.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: replacement 2-leaf timber door at centre; projecting square-plan columnar porch; single window in bay to outer left; bipartite window in advanced bay to right; single window in recessed addition to outer right.

2-pane timber sash and case windows to original block; timber casements to addition. Graded grey slate piended roof; replacement rainwater goods; corniced wallhead stacks to E and W; single circular can.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

Statement of Special Interest

Set to the NE of Balmory House (see separate list entry). Commissioned by Mr Thomas Croil, a wealthy West India Merchant from Glasgow, Balmory House was considered a "...typical example of the modern Italian style of villa architecture..." (THE CASTLES AND MANSIONS OF RENFREWSHIRE AND BUTESHIRE). According to Sasine records dated 1861, the feu was obtained from the Trustees of Robert Thom of Ascog, "...late cotton spinner, Rothesay", also renowned for designing a means of supplying water to the inhabitants of Greenock (see separate list entry for Meikle Ascog). Despite its flat-roofed addition, the gatelodge has retained some good detailing, including its shouldered-arched panelling and window surrounds, its columnar porch and corbelled eaves. The nearby boundary walls and gatepiers are listed with the main house.

References

Bibliography

SRO Sasine Records, Bute, November 1st 1861, GR/3175/126; does not appear on Ordnance Survey map 1863; appears on Ordnance Survey map, 1897; A H Millar THE CASTLES AND MANSIONS OF RENFREWSHIRE AND BUTESHIRE (1889); J MacCallum "WISH YOU WERE HERE": A PICTURE POSTCARD VIEW OF EDWARDIAN BUTE p24.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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