Craigallan, 12 Glebe Road, Beith

John Fulton, builder, 1898-99. 2-storey and attic 3-bay villa with Baronial details. Slightly advanced gabled bay to L with gabletted crowsteps and apex finial; canted bay window to ground with decorative cast-iron brattishing; tripartite 1st floor window; pointed-arched attic window with label-stopped hoodmould. Bay to R with large 5-light bay windows to ground and 1st floors; crenellated parapet with conical, octagonal slated roof; lead finial. Central timber panelled 2-leaf outer door; letterbox fanlight; window to 1st floor. Battered base course; moulded string course above bay windows; moulded eaves course. Bull-faced coursed sandstone; polished ashlar margins.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: 3 bays with central projecting single storey service wing. Crowstepped gabled bay to R with window to ground, 1st floor bipartite, pointed-arched window to attic; bipartite stair window to centre; bipartites to ground and 1st floor to R.

N ELEVATION: window to ground and 1st floors.

Timber sash and case windows, plate glass lower sashes, upper sashes small-pane with coloured glass. Grey slates; ashlar crowstepped skews; corniced ashlar gable stacks with circular clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: good decorative scheme in place in typical historicist fashion. Hall: unpainted American pine turned stair balustrade, tongue-and-groove lining below; mutuled cornice with rosettes; panelled dado; panelled inner door and surround with small-pane coloured glazing; naturalistic painted glass margin-paned stairlight. Drawing room: decorative plaster ceiling with roundels and strapwork, elaborate rose and foliate motif with '1898 JF 1899'; exposed pine panelled doors with brass fittings; panelled dado; pine chimneypiece (later hearth); lightfitting possibly original. Dining room: mahogany chimneypiece (later hearth) with carved frieze; cornice of thistles, fruit and flowers. Master bedroom: daffodil cornice; chimneypiece. Bedroom: painted timber Renaissance chimneypiece; grapevine cornice.