Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

SKELMORLIE VILLAGE MONTGOMERY TERRACE CRAIG MEMORIAL HOME AND GATEPIERSLB7290

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
29/08/1985
Local Authority
North Ayrshire
Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Parish
Largs
NGR
NS 19388 67684
Coordinates
219388, 667684

Description

Late 19th century. Large asymmetrical villa with Scottish

Baronial features. Alterations & additions 1904 by Salmon

Son & Gillespie (?executed) & in 1906 by Fryers and Penman of

Largs. 2 storeys and attic, and set on slope, with basement

raised at west. Snecked and stugged red sandstone ashlar

with polished dressings. East (entrance) elevation: advanced

wide gable to left (2 windows at each level), single windows

in right bay (crow-stepped 1st floor dormer head). Central

octagonal porch with open arcaded passage, these both timber,

and balustraded: Single swept-roofed dormer with

iron-balustraded platform. Low, single storey piended hall

to right with some leaded lights, attic oriel in gable above:

low tile-hung wing to left (service wing beyond), raised to

full height on main west facade, with angle turret,

corbelled above basement, octagonal and tile-hung at 1st

floor, with conical roof, linked to advanced gabled bay by

corbelled angle turret. Full height canted window to gabled

bay, corbelled balcony to eastern bays, attic oriel in raised

gablet.

Interior: some good plasterwork and good panelling: north

ground floor room has Corinthian pilasters, slender

Corinthian columns flanking door and chimney piece; foliate

patterned frieze and cornice: shallow depressed arch

spanning room, spandrels decorated with knights on horseback;

ribbed ceiling.

Margined, square, red ashlar gatepiers have projecting

caps; decorative wrought-iron gates.

Statement of Special Interest

Shown on 1895 OS map. Pediment on west wall bears initials

"CPH, FSE". Formerly West Park.

Alterations for R Hunter Craig MP.

References

Bibliography

Ayrshire CC Northern District Committee Minutes, 1906

Raymond O'Donnel, SALMON SON & GILLESPIE, 1983-5 thesis

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)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

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