31 The Lane, Skelmorlie

Circa 1888. 2-storey, 3-bay villa with 2-bay single-storey service wing to N, canted bay window, gabled dormers with decorative bargeboards, deep eaves and Aberdeen-bond stonework. Squared, tooled, coursed, Aberdeen-bond red sandstone to front and back; roughly squared, Aberdeen-bond rubble to sides; polished ashlar dressings. Raised quoin strips and window margins.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central 2-leaf timber panelled door with fanlight in pointed-arch, stop-chamfered, roll-moulded architrave. Bipartite window at ground to left with hoodmould; 3-light canted bay window to right; gabled dormers at 1st floor. Service wing to outer left with 2 windows.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: segmental-arched staircase window to centre; regular fenestration to outer bays with dormers to 1st floor. Service wing recessed to right with garage and timber boarded back door.

N & S (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: blank gables. Service wing extended from N elevation. Gablehead stack to S only.

4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Corniced stack with octagonal yellow clay cans. Graded grey slate. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: half-glazed timber-panelled lobby door with frosted glass. Curved staircase with decorative cast-iron baluster and mahogany hand rail; border-glazed staircase window with frosted glass to border. Principal room with working timber shutters, marble chimneypiece, decorative floral plaster cornice and plaster ceiling rose. Decorative cornicing and timber panelled interior doors throughout.