3 Kirkstyle Cottages, Kirkshaws Road, Coatbridge

Thomas Smith, dated 1904; additions to E gable of eastmost block dated 1913. 2 pairs of single storey and attic, Tudor-style, near identical and symmetrical, semi-detached cottages with gabled dormers. Half timbered and harled. Each pair of cottages comprises central block with 2 oriels at ground floor flanked by single windows, terracotta panel at centre, terracotta date panel at centre of jettied at attic floor, 2 dormers, lychgate-type entrance porches to left and right, single storey bays to far left and right with oriel window and swept roof (except E cottage of westmost block). Return gables, each slightly different, outshot at right return of westmost block. Jettied attic floor, plain bargeboards. Porches to rear.

Boarded entrance doors with plate glass window (No.2) and arched glazed window (No.1), and side lights. Multipane timber glazing to Nos 1 and 2, replacement glazing and doors to Nos 3 and 4. Slate roof with small graded slates and finned and dentilled terracotta ridges, large slender central brick stacks balustraded to top and single gablehead stacks with fishscale-tiled gabled caps.

INTERIOR: some good simple Edwardian detailing surviving: panelled doors with two lying panels over two vertical panels, timber dado boarding to entrance hall and stairs, plain squared timber banisters to doubled turned stair, niches to landings. Some timber boarding upper bedroom and timber fire surround, to No. 1.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low walls with taller squared, capped gatepiers.