197 Nithsdale Road

1. 2-storey and basement period villa with exceptionally fine stained glass windows to interior, attributed to studio of Stephen Adam and Son; subdivided circa 1977. Cream sandstone, squared and snecked for deep course, sides and rear, ashlar for main front. Chamfered arrises. Stone mullions.

ELEVATION: 2-bay with recessed porch in re-entrant angle formed to left. Porch comprised of Corinthian capitalled column supporting corner of balustraded canopy with heraldic shield-bearing lion statue above corner. Tall, 2-leaf panelled doors. Bay to outer right with full-height canted window, dividing cornice and piended roof, bay to left with corniced tripartite at ground and bipartite at 1st floor.

ELEVATION: blank to outer left, porch in recess to right of centre and stair windows to centre, tall window above pair of small windows.

SIDE AND REAR ELEVATIONS: off-centre windowed bays to both, with lower 2-storey piend-roofed garage and service quarters wing projecting to left of rear, folding, boarded garage doors with small-pane upper panels; small windows in accommodation above.

Timber sash and case windows with plate glass and 4-pane glazing patterns; bipartite to front with modern glazing pattern. Bracketed eaves and profiled guttering. Wallhead stone stacks.

INTERIOR: interior decorative scheme possibly also by Stephen Adam and Son. Vestibule door with stained glass depicting Ceres, goddess of summer; vestibule window with bird scenes and lily pad set in mahogany panelled recess; depressed mahogany archway to hall with arcade above glazed with decorative stained glass each pane centred with female head; stair window with stained glass depicting Elizabethan hawking scene to centre, Shakespeare and Robert Burns portrait heads below, strapwork above and vine swags flanking; 1st floor drawing room with upper sashes depicting Lancelot and Elaine, King Arthur, Queen Guinevere. Mahogany stair with small urn finialled newels, unusual railing pattern. Fine timber chimneypiece: to ground floor front room with carved panels, bracket flanked niches with corbelled rests; fluted pilasters flanking chimneypiece to ground floor rear; colonnette flanked chimneypiece to 1st floor to front, with hand-painted hearth-tile and decorative brass canopy; further timber chimneypieces with bracketed mantle pieces. Deep frieze of decorative plasterwork to bedroom. Ornamental ceilings, 1 hidden by false ceiling.