Washington House, Glasgow Road, Kirkintilloch

Washington House is a late 18th to early 19th century, two-storey house with an attic and basement, located on a corner site in Kirkintilloch. Originally a classical residence, it was converted into flatted dwellings in 2001. The exterior is harled with squared rubble on the side, featuring droved ashlar margins and quoin strips. It has base and band courses, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course. The windows are round-headed with timber mullions.

On the north elevation facing Glasgow Road, the central bay at ground level has a corniced doorpiece flanked by Doric columns, leading to a two-leaf panelled timber door with a fanlight above. The flanking bays contain windows above barred basement openings, and there is regular fenestration on the first floor. A wallhead chimney with a top-cropped pediment is positioned over the central bay.

The east elevation facing Washington Road features two widely-set windows on each floor of a broad gable, with a small round-headed window in the gablehead above a dominant chimney stack. There is a narrow, slightly set-back bay with two openings on the outer left and an irregular terrace adjoining at the same side.

The west elevation has a narrow light at the centre on the ground floor and a window to the outer left on each floor. The south elevation, or rear, includes a bay to the left with a basement window below a bipartite window at ground level and another window above. There is a projecting bay on the right with a door at ground level, leading to a harled dog-leg forestair with cast-iron railings that provides access to a first-floor door below a small window on the return to the left, along with an irregular terrace adjoining.

The windows are fitted with plate glass glazing in timber sash and case frames, and the roof is covered with grey slates. The chimney stacks are coped with ashlar, some featuring cans, and the skews are also ashlar-coped.

Inside, there are some panelled soffits and shutters, a timber staircase with turned balusters leading to the attic, and a winding stone stair to the basement that includes stone fireplaces. One fireplace has a narrow insert to the side and a further stone-margined rectangle above.

The property is enclosed by semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls, which are complemented by flat-coped square-section ashlar gatepiers and fine decorative cast-iron railings leading to the forestair on the south side.