Craigallan, 12 Glebe Road, Beith

Craigallan is a two-storey and attic villa with an attic, built in 1898-99 by John Fulton. It is located at 12 Glebe Road, Beith, and exhibits Baronial detailing. To the left is a slightly projecting gabled bay with gableted crowsteps and an apex finial. It features a canted bay window on the ground floor with decorative cast-iron brattishing, and a tripartite window on the first floor. Above is a pointed-arched attic window with a label-stopped hoodmould. The bay to the right has large five-light bay windows on both the ground and first floors, topped by a crenellated parapet with a conical, octagonal slated roof and lead finial.

The main entrance is a central timber panelled door consisting of two leaves, with a letterbox fanlight and a window above it on the first floor. A battered base course runs around the building, with a moulded string course above the bay windows, and a moulded eaves course. The construction is of bull-faced coursed sandstone with polished ashlar margins.

The rear elevation features three bays and a projecting, single-storey service wing. A crowstepped gabled bay is on the right, with a window to the ground floor, a bipartite window to the first floor, and a pointed-arched window to the attic. There is also a bipartite stair window in the centre and bipartite windows to the ground and first floors on the right.

The north elevation has a window to the ground and first floors.

The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass lower sashes, and small-pane upper sashes incorporating coloured glass. The roof is covered in grey slates with ashlar crowstepped skews, and corniced ashlar gable stacks with circular clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted.

The interior retains a good decorative scheme in a historicist style. The hall has an unpainted American pine turned stair balustrade, tongue-and-groove lining below, a mutuled cornice with rosettes, a panelled dado, a panelled inner door and surround with small-pane coloured glazing, and a naturalistic painted glass stairlight. The drawing room displays a decorative plaster ceiling with roundels and strapwork, an elaborate rose and foliate motif including the inscription "1898 JF 1899”, exposed pine panelled doors with brass fittings, a panelled dado, a pine chimneypiece (with a later hearth), and a lightfitting which may be original. The dining room features a mahogany chimneypiece (again with a later hearth) and a cornice depicting thistles, fruit and flowers. The master bedroom has a daffodil cornice and a chimneypiece. One bedroom has a painted timber Renaissance chimneypiece and a grapevine cornice.