Aikenhead House, King's Park, 325 Carmunnock Road, Glasgow

Aikenhead House is a neo-classical country house built in 1806, with significant additions and alterations in 1823, likely designed by David Hamilton. In 1985-6, it was converted into flats by the Classical House of Glasgow. The house is constructed of polished pink ashlar (Bothwell stone), with architraves, a channelled basement, panelled giant angle pilasters, and corniced windows with a continuous cill course at ground level. Repairs have been carried out using red ashlar. The windows are small-paned sashes.

The original house was a free-standing structure with two storeys over a semi-raised basement, and five bays on its long elevations. The central bays of each elevation are slightly advanced, each containing three close-spaced bays. The central West-facing entrance is sheltered by a tetrastyle Corinthian porch, behind which is a panelled door with a small-paned fanlight. Flanking windows act as sidelights, with aprons featuring Adamitic fluted panels. Ground floor windows in the outer bays have distinctive droopy consoles. The house is deep in plan, with three-bay flanks. All elevations feature a frieze, mutule cornice, and blocking course. The blocking course is raised and balustraded; the East balustrade has been renewed over the advanced centres. The roof is shallow-pitched and piended, with a platform and slate and lead covering, and paired chimneys rise above the platform.

The interior retains some original cornice plasterwork, although much was lost due to dry-rot damage. It was altered during the conversion to flats. The entrance leads into a top-lit stair hall with cantilevered stone steps and decorative cast-iron balusters.

The two-storey flanking wings are roughly square in plan and repeat detailing from the main house. They have low first floors with horizontally-proportioned windows. Panelled giant pilasters divide the bays on the three-bay West and East elevations. The cill course is threaded behind the order at each level. The two-bay flanks have a central apex stack. One window on each pavilion was altered between 1985 and 1986 to create a doorway. A two-bay, single-storey and attic linking range connects the wings. The attic storey is not original and was concealed on the West front behind a raised blocking course and behind the roof pitch. Horizontally-proportioned windows face East.