Burnside, 40 Campbell Street, 38, Helensburgh

Burnside is a two-storey and attic, three-bay symmetrical flatted villa built around 1830. It features a classical porch and is constructed from red sandstone rubble, rendered and lined as ashlar on the south elevation, with harling on the west and ashlar dressings throughout. The building has base and lintel courses, raised painted margins, pilaster quoins on the south elevation, and quoin strips on the north.

On the south (entrance) elevation, there is a panelled fanlit door at the center, accompanied by a deep half-glazed vestibule door. The entrance is highlighted by a projecting timber portico that has a dentilled cornice and incised Greek fret decoration on the piers. Flanking the entrance are windows, with three symmetrically arranged windows on the first floor.

The west elevation, facing Campbell Street, has three bays with a window in the center and one on the outer right, while the outer left is blind on both the ground and first floors. The north (rear) elevation features a stone forestair leading to an enclosed timber porch at the center of the first floor. The east elevation is a mirror image of the west elevation.

The villa has four-pane sash and case windows on the south side and 12-pane windows elsewhere. It is topped with a grey slate roof, ashlar coped skews, and a slate-hung piended dormer flanked by gabled canted dormers on the south. The north side has a single dormer and rooflights, with rendered corniced stacks on the gables, retaining original cans.

To the northeast, there is an outbuilding with a rectangular plan, made of red sandstone rubble, featuring two boarded doors on the south and west elevations and a piended slate roof.