22 Drymen Road, Bearsden

22 Drymen Road in Bearsden is a sophisticated villa built around 1855, with later additions to the rear. This two-storey building features an asymmetrical design in the Free Italian style, incorporating mixed Renaissance and Romanesque motifs. The south and west fronts are finished in polished ashlar.

The south elevation has an advanced gable on the left, which includes a shallow rectangular tripartite bay that is pilastered and topped with a bracketed wooden cornice at the entablature. The first floor features an arched bipartite window with a columnar mullion and circled tracery, framed by inband and outband voussoirs. To the right, there is a painted wooden portico with two bays, shouldered lintels, coupled columns, and a bracketed cornice, topped with an elegant iron balustrade. Inside, there are shouldered openings, a door with a fanlight, and a stained glass window with a corbelled sill to the right. The left side has a first-floor shouldered window in a moulded architrave, while the right features an arched window with a bracketed canopy held above the eaves.

To the right, there is a single-storey kitchen wing made of ashlar, which includes two niches. The west elevation is similar but has a canted bay on the left and a conservatory on the right, which is semi-octagonal with arch-headed lights and a domical roof with a clerestorey. The north elevation is more plain, constructed from snecked rubble, with stepped building and roof lines, and features a similar canted bay in the central section. A later glazed passage connects to the billiard room at the northeast corner, which has three raised gablets. The villa has a low-pitched slated roof with broad boarded eaves and pendants, piended at the back, and corniced shaped ashlar stacks with original chimney pots.

To the north, there is a single-storey billiard room that has tripartite windows on the east and west sides, along with a flat slated roof that has a wide overhang and boarded eaves. Inside, the villa boasts a good interior featuring a painted arabesque drawing room ceiling, which is partly stencilled, and elaborate plasterwork. The morning room is partly panelled and includes built-in fittings.