Fruitfield House, East High Street, Airdrie

Fruitfield House, located on East High Street in Airdrie, is an Italianate villa designed by James Thomson around 1880. This two-storey, three-bay building has a square plan and a symmetrical façade. It features broad projecting eaves supported by consoles, and the exterior is constructed from squared and snecked yellow sandstone rubble with ashlar margins. The design includes long and short channelled quoins, a base course, and a continuous cill course for the first and second storey windows, along with an impost course for the upper storey semicircular-arched windows. The wallhead stacks are coped and adorned with a scalloped frieze.

On the southeast (principal) elevation, there is a slightly advanced porch at the center, framed by a channelled ashlar surround and topped with a projecting cornice and a block and baluster parapet. The ground floor features projecting canted windows, each with fretted parapets, while the second storey has a single semicircular-arched window flanked by stone mullioned semicircular-arched bipartite windows.

The northwest (rear) elevation includes square-headed windows in the outer bays of the ground and first floors, with a large semicircular-arched stair window at the center and a wallhead stack to the center right.

On the southwest (side) elevation, there is a square-headed bipartite window on the ground floor to the left, with a single window to the right. The upper storey has a semicircular-arched window to the left, another semicircular-arched window at the center, and a single square-headed window to the right, along with a wallhead stack in the center.

The northeast (side) elevation features square-headed windows in the ground floor to the left and the upper storey to the right. There is a single-storey service wing attached to the outer right, which has a piended roof and square windows and doors.

The villa is fitted with plate glass timber sash and case windows, grey slate roofing with lead flashing, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Inside, the property boasts heavily moulded classical cornices throughout, featuring acanthus and palmettes, as well as dentil moulding and timber panelled doors.