Faside House, Ayr Road, Newton Mearns

Faside House, located on Ayr Road in Newton Mearns, was designed by architects Frank Burnet & Boston of Glasgow in 1911. This "tower" house is an addition to the north wing of a late 18th-century structure. It is a two-storey, three-bay building with a rectangular plan, featuring corbelled angle turrets, crow-stepped gables, and a crenellated and corbelled parapet. The exterior showcases heavily pointed and stugged inter-locking polygonal masonry, complemented by polished ashlar dressings, while the earlier parts of the house are harled.

On the north elevation, there is a low door to the right with moulding above, set in splayed reveals. Above this door is a rectangular window supported by scrolled brackets, and to the left, there is a tall, stepped three-light stair window. Below, three stepped windows include two 12-pane sashes and three piended dormers. The central canted first-floor oriel window is located on the west gable, with single bay east wings that open onto a conservatory to the east. This area is linked by a balustraded screen wall to a gabled garden gateway, which features a depressed-arched opening with a heraldic crest above and grotesques.

The north wing includes two first-floor windows with shaped dormerheads above a tripartite arrangement on the west elevation, and a low, battered turret with a conical roof to the right. A screen wall with gateways connects to a former outbuilding, now a garage, which has crenellations and crow-steps, forming an enclosed courtyard to the west of the original house. The original house has a modern, broad central porch leading to the courtyard and features plate glass sashes. The taller wing, linking to the tower house, has one broad gabled bay and a single scrolled skewputt, all under slated roofs.

Inside the tower house, there is wooden panelling in the halls, billiard room, and music room. The stairs are adorned with shaped wooden balusters, and the bottom newel is carved with grotesque figures. The interior also features some decorative chimney pieces and plasterwork, particularly in the drawing room, along with simple leaded glass panels. Notable elements include a single painted figure beside the main door and a sailing ship panel above the main door in the drawing room.