4-12 Brewland Street, Galston

Dated 1901, 4-12 Brewland Street is a three-storey and attic, seven-bay building constructed from red sandstone in a free Renaissance style, designed with an asymmetrical appearance. The ground floor now contains modern shop fronts. A distinctive octagonal bartizan corbelled from a chamfered base is situated at the north-east corner of the building’s frontage. This bartizan features small windows with lugged architraves and cornices at the first floor level. A moulded cornice sits above a consoled platform below the second-floor windows, which themselves have transoms, architraves and heavily moulded pediments. A moulded string course and cill course run below the parapet head, which contains a blind round-headed window with keystoned drip moulds. Decorative low relief sculpture adorns the windows and frieze. The turret roof projects eaves, features a prominent bellcast shape, and is topped with lead finials.

On the first floor, to the west of the bartizan, are round-headed windows with moulded and keystoned heads, arranged in pairs separated by pilasters that run the full height of the storey. The end pairs of windows are separated by narrower pilasters. The central bay features a canted oriel at the second floor, springing from a height level with the heads of the first-floor windows, with a moulded cill band. These oriel windows are more widely separated than those in the other bays. A plain frieze and cornice delineate the boundary between the first and second floors. The second-floor windows in the east end bay are bipartite and mullioned with transoms. The adjacent two bays have paired windows with chamfered reveals. The central bay contains a canted oriel with transoms (the centre window is bipartite). The three western bays have tripartite mullioned and transomed windows with three-compartment panelling beneath, separated by pilasters that align with those below. A cill course is present. A heavy cornice and parapet mark the roofline; the central and bays have shaped gables, with end gables displaying ogee skews, pediments and architraved oculi. The central gable features a semi-circular head with low relief sculpture below and flanking urns. Most windows, aside from those which are mullioned and transomed, are sash and case with multipane upper sections. The end gables are constructed of snecked rubble with chimney stacks. The west-end stack has a frieze and cornice, while the east-end stack has been reduced.