Scott House, 56 Langside Drive, Glasgow

Circa 1904. Asymmetrical Arts and Crafts villa with baronial detailing; 2-storey and attic, raised over basement to rear; large single storey and basement conservatory/reception room (near contemporary additions) adjoining S gable. Bull-faced red sandstone with polished ashlar dressings; red brick to upper level of conservatory wing; timber detailing to gables. Battered base course, cill course, cornice. Stone mullioned windows.

E (FRONT) ELEVATION: to left, 2-bay single-storey and basement extension (see below); to right, original 4-bay elevation with polygonal-roofed canted bay to left, conical-roofed bow to right corner, both with scrolled relief panels to 1st floor aprons, finials to roofs. To ground floor, to inner bays windows, that to left transomed with roll-moulded surround below and oval panel. To far right, recessed, small single storey pitched-roofed entrance bay with chamfered, depressed-arched doorway with modern door. To roof, 2 small gabled dormers.

N AND S ELEVATIONS: to attic, large tripartite windows with stylised timber apron and gablehead.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: slightly advanced stair gable to centre, bipartite window to each floor with stained glass; to right, canted tripartite bay with window to basement, doorways flanked by windows at ground and 1st floor (see Notes).

INTERIOR: stair windows of late 19th century stained glass with stylised flowers. Some timber-panelled and stained glass doors.

GLAZING etc: predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows, some with arched small pane detail to top. Pitched roof; graded slate; plain bargeboards to gables. Corniced bull-faced gable-head stacks flanking N and S gables. Some cast-iron rainwater goods.

RECEPTION ROOM AND CONSERVATORY: adjoining S gable; Arts and Crafts style, single storey and basement, rectangular plan with canted ends. Painted timber and glazed brick over bull-faced coursed red sandstone basement. Basket-arched cart opening to basement to side elevation. Timber mullioned and transomed, small-paned casement windows with decorative arched glazing; tripartite window to front, with timber gablehead above; continuous windows to rear. Jerkin roofed; predominantly graded slate; glazed roof to rear; terracotta ridge tiles and finials; corniced red brick ridge stack to centre.

INTERIOR: large main reception room to front, designed as a medieval great hall; timber panelling and open timber trussed roof, latticed and fanned over end bay; timber ingleneuk chimneypiece with dwarf columns and cornice; fire surround of glazed tiles with overmantel with moulded intertwined marine monsters, flanked by small round-headed stained glass windows (depicting stylised Scottish landscapes) into conservatory. To rear, conservatory.

WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low coped walls to Langside Drive; conical capped drum gatepiers with frieze; modern gates. Brick walls enclosing large rear garden.