Rawyards House, Motherwell Street, Airdie

Rawyards House is an Italianate villa built in 1880 by James Thomson. It is a two-storey, five-bay structure with a rectangular plan, featuring a piend and platform roof adorned with cast-iron railings, overhanging eaves, and mutules. The front is finished in yellow ashlar sandstone, while the sides and rear are constructed from squared and snecked rubble. The villa predominantly showcases semicircular-arched openings with plain projecting margins, cills, and keystones.

The principal elevation has a three-bay central block with a corbelled cill for the first-floor windows and a continuous impost course. To the left, there is a two-storey, advanced canted bay, with a square-headed window in the centre of the ground floor and a slightly projecting three-light square-headed window to the right, featuring pilastered stone mullions. Above this is a three-light window. To the outer left, there is a slightly recessed lower bay with a bipartite window on the ground floor. The outer right has a slightly recessed, single-storey entrance bay with stone steps leading to a broad entrance arch and a narrow window to the left.

The rear elevation has irregular fenestration, with a slightly advanced double bay to the left and a tall stair window to the right, along with an advanced lower bay to the right. The east side elevation includes a single-storey, advanced entrance bay to the left, with a glazed conservatory link to a new building at the centre of the entrance bay. The west side elevation also features irregular fenestration, with a slightly advanced bay to the left.

The windows are plate glass sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slates and lead flashing, and there are tall, twinned wallhead stacks.

Inside, the villa retains classically detailed wood and plaster work in the lobby, hall, and principal rooms, alongside modern alterations and additions made for its use as a residential nursing home.