Grangewells, Acre Road, Muirhouses, Bo'Ness

Grangewells, located on Acre Road in Muirhouses, Bo'Ness, is a two-storey villa designed by Matthew Steele in 1911, showcasing an asymmetrical layout in the Art Nouveau/Glasgow School style. The exterior features white painted harl with an ashlar porch and stylised narrow curb-stones at some outer corners. Notable elements include distinctive vertical pane glazing and large chimney stacks.

The west elevation has three bays, with a near-central single-storey flat-roofed porch that features an organic motif, creating a break in the roofline above the off-centre pylon-formed door opening. Above this door is a tripartite window. To the left, there is an advanced two-storey canted bay with a piended roof, and a bipartite window on the first floor to the right.

On the south elevation, an advanced gable to the left includes a single-storey four-light bay window with a semi-domed roof and a narrow light at the gablehead. To the right, there are two recessed single-storey gables, each with bipartite windows.

The entrance features an Art Nouveau two-leaf timber door with two pylon-form panels and narrow vertical double lights above. The villa retains a predominantly original glazing pattern with timber sash and case windows that have horns, where the upper sash includes between four and six narrow vertical panes, and the lower section is plate glass. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there are tall stacks at the advanced gable on the south, a battered stack at the single-storey gable on the south, and a gable stack on the east.

Inside, the villa features predominantly unusual timber panelled doors with three tall narrow panels, topped and tailed by a horizontal rectangle. The timber staircase has stylised organic motif tops on the newel posts. There are no original fireplaces remaining, but an original chimneypiece and overmantel with modern stained glass infill can be found in the bay window room on the west. The bay window room on the south has simple linear plaster ceiling decoration.