Flowerhill Manse, 31 Victoria Place, Airdrie

1. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan Italianate villa. Barge boarded overhanging eaves with exposed rafters. Squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar margins. Base course, continuous eaves height course. Stone mullioned windows, flat-arched openings at ground, round arched openings at 1st floor; corbelled projecting cills and shouldered architrave. Decorative bargeboards with fretwork detailing.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: steps to panelled door to centre with letterbox fanlight; 3-light window to left, consoled canopy; advanced 3-light canted bay to right, moulded parapet. Blocked margin to central 1st floor oculi, large semicircular-arched window to left to gablet dormer breaking eaves; 3-light semicircular-arched window with doric colonettes mullions and moulded voussoirs to gabled bay to right.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: irregular fenestration; semicircular-arched stair window within broad gable breaking eaves to centre. Advanced single storey, gabled bay to centre left.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2 windows at ground floor, window at 1st to right.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2 windows at 1st floor

INTERIOR: (seen 2010) elaborately detailed cornicing to principal rooms; moulded cornining to hall. Window shutters. Timber staircase with finely detailed cast-iron balustrade and timber handrail. Tiled floor to porch

Plate glass, timber-framed sash and case windows, leaded upper panes to principal elevation. Grey slates, lead flashing. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Coped ridge stacks with clay circular cans.

BOUNDARY WALL: low, saddle-back coped wall. Square-plan gate-piers with jettied pyramidal caps and iron gates with inscription 'FLOWERHILL MANSE'