Scott House, 56 Langside Drive, Glasgow

Scott House is an Arts and Crafts villa with baronial detailing, dating to circa 1904. A large, near-contemporary, single-storey and basement conservatory and reception room adjoins the south gable. The house is constructed of bull-faced red sandstone with polished ashlar dressings; the conservatory wing is of red brick with timber detailing to the gables.

The east elevation is asymmetrical. To the left is a two-bay, single-storey and basement extension. To the right is the original four-bay elevation featuring a polygonal-roofed canted bay to the left and a conical-roofed bow to the right corner, both with scrolled relief panels in the aprons of the first-floor windows, topped with finials. A recessed, single-storey, pitched-roof entrance bay with a chamfered, depressed-arched doorway sits to the far right, now containing a modern door. Two small gabled dormers are present in the roof. The north and south elevations have large tripartite windows to the attic with stylised timber aprons and gableheads. The west (rear) elevation has a slightly advanced stair gable with bipartite stained glass windows to each floor, and a canted tripartite bay with a basement window.

The interior features late 19th-century stained glass windows depicting stylised flowers. There are some timber-panelled and stained glass doors. The windows are predominantly two-pane timber sash and case, some with arched small panes to the top. The roof is pitched, covered in graded slate, with plain bargeboards to the gables. Corniced gable-head stacks flank the north and south gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.

The adjoining conservatory and reception room, of Arts and Crafts style, is rectangular with canted ends, built on a bull-faced red sandstone basement. The upper elements are painted timber and glazed brick. A basket-arched cart opening provides access to the basement from the side elevation. The windows are timber mullioned and transomed with small panes, including decorative arched glazing. The conservatory has a jerkin roof, predominantly graded slate, a glazed rear roof, terracotta ridge tiles and finials, and a corniced red brick ridge stack.

The reception room, designed as a medieval great hall, features timber panelling, an open timber trussed roof with latticework and fanning over an end bay, a timber ingleneuk chimneypiece with dwarf columns and a cornice, and a glazed tile fire surround with an overmantel featuring moulded intertwined marine monsters, flanked by small round-headed stained glass windows depicting stylised Scottish landscapes. Low, coped walls with conical-capped drum gatepiers and modern gates line Langside Drive. Brick walls enclose the large rear garden.