Thirlestaine Court

Thirlestaine Court is a villa, now used as offices, built around 1840 to 1860 with later additions and alterations. It features ashlar stone over brick with a hipped slate roof, tall ashlar end stacks with triangular caps on brackets, and an iron balcony, all designed in the Italianate style. The building is two storeys and a basement, with two sets of two windows on the first floor. The entrance bay is set back to the left, and there is a single-storey extension to the right, with a breakforward section to the right of the main range. The ashlar detailing includes tooled architraves around the windows, with cornices on the ground floor windows to the left, a first-floor band, a frieze, and wide eaves supported by brackets. The windows are 1/1 sashes in plain reveals with sills and blind boxes. A porch set back to the left features an arched doorway with a pierced parapet, and a flight of steps leads to a recessed door with four fielded panels and a fanlight. The interior, as noted in a 1983 description, includes an original staircase with an iron balustrade and enriched cornices. The ground-floor balcony has ornate scrolled panels. Historically, the design of the ironwork is similar to that produced by the Coalbrookdale Company, Ironbridge, and can also be found on the Bandstand in Montpellier Gardens and on the balustrade of The Savoy Hotel on Bayshill Road.