Kirkhill House, Broom Road East, Broom, Newton Mearns

Kirkhill House, located on Broom Road East in Broom, Newton Mearns, is a villa built around 1870 in the Jacobean style. This asymmetrical two-storey and attic building was added to a simple late 18th or early 19th century small two-storey, three-bay house. The exterior features stugged and snecked ashlar with polished dressings.

The entrance porch is a single-storey structure positioned at the re-entrant angle with the earlier house, featuring a four-centred moulded arch with carved spandrels and a corbelled raised parapet. To the left of the porch are two bays, one of which is gabled, and the outer bay includes a square projecting ground floor three-light window with entwined initials displayed on an escutcheon in the parapet. The garden front, facing southwest, has three uneven bays, with the outer bay on the right being gabled and featuring a full-height canted bay that is corbelled to a square at the attic level. The windows are primarily two or three-light with plate glass sashes, and strapwork decorates the first-floor northeast entrance front window. The gables are adorned with kneelers and finials, and the slate roof has grouped ridge stacks that have been reduced in height.

The earlier house received gablets on the front around 1870, and a rear stair window with margin glazing remains, along with a stone stair that features an iron balustrade.

Inside, the entrance lobby leads to a stair hall through an elaborately detailed door that has a large engraved glass panel. The staircase is notable for its banded colonette balusters that support gothic arcading, and there is a three-arched decorated gothic screen on the landing, complemented by a deep floral cornice. The interior showcases excellent woodwork, including linen-fold shutters and doors, and colonettes framing the main doorcases to the hall, landing, and drawing room. Deep plaster cornices enhance the main rooms, and there is a billiard room located in the attic.