26 Victoria Place, Airdrie

26 Victoria Place in Airdrie is a two-storey, three-bay Italianate villa designed by George Arthur in 1897. It features a deep rectangular plan with a hipped roof and mutuled projecting eaves, as well as a first-floor balcony. The building is constructed from yellow ashlar sandstone, with rubble used on the sides and rear. It has a base course and a heavy cornice separating the first and second storeys, and is predominantly adorned with tall stone mullioned windows.

On the principal (south) elevation, there is an advanced bay to the left and a prominent two-storey canted window bay at the centre, which has mullioned and transomed windows on the first floor, a cornice, and a scalloped parapet. The advanced ground floor bays to the right feature a balustraded parapet that forms the first-floor balcony. The central entrance is hoodmoulded and segmentally arched, leading to a recessed open porch with a freestanding polished granite column supporting the arch to the right, and a low opening adjacent. Above is an oculus, and there is a panelled timber door at the rear. The right bay includes a three-light mullioned and transomed window, while a narrow, glazed, colonnaded arcade is located at the centre of the first floor, with a door returning to the left. The bay to the right has a bipartite window.

The west (side) elevation features forestairs leading to a central first-floor entrance, flanked by projecting pilasters topped with a pediment. Above is a bipartite window, and there is a garage entrance to the ground left. The east (side) elevation displays irregular fenestration, with forestairs leading to a side entrance on the right, which is covered by a modern brick porch. A wallhead stack breaks the eaves at the centre right, with a box dormer flanking it to the right.

The north (rear) elevation is three-storey with irregular fenestration, featuring an advanced bay to the left and an engaged circular-plan corner tower at the centre. This tower has a four-light window below a first-stage cornice, a three-light mullioned and transomed window above, a conical roof, and a flag pole at the apex.

Inside, there is a garage located in the basement at the rear, with separate flats on the ground and first floors. The front features timber-framed plate glass windows, while the rear has double glazing. The roof is covered with grey slate and lead flashing, and there is a large rooflight at the centre front, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

The boundary wall and gatepiers consist of a low saddle-back coped wall with modern railings. There are two sets of piers, which are square-plan with battered columns, recessed corners to the frieze, a cornice, and pyramidal caps behind the parapet, with raised blocks at the corners.