11 Walter Street, Wishaw

John Forrester Steel, 1904. 2-storey, 2-bay, asymmetrical, L-plan, Arts and Crafts villa. Rough square and snecked sandstone, ashlar sandstone quoins, upper storey white harled. Recessed porch with square tapered corner column, overhanging eaves with exposed rafters.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: stone steps to recessed porch to right of advanced bay with square, tapered sandstone ashlar column with plain doric capital to corner; consoled to left; timber door with decorative panelling and 3 small leaded lights; 3-light stone mullioned window to left; upper storey white harled; large, canted timber window supported on timber corbels with jettied gablehead from lintel; advanced full-height stack to right, scalloped and battered at eaves, stepping in above eaves; oculus window with plain ashlar margin to right; plain white harled upper storey.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: blank, plain masonry wall with two flat topped wallhead dormers; advanced single storey bay to right with plain door and window; piended gable roof; full-height wallhead chimney stack, freestanding from eaves level.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: advanced bay of west elevation to left, bi-partite mullioned window to left of bay; advised canted bay with plain cornice to right; central 4-light mullioned window to centre of gable end wall above, upper storey harled white; advanced single storey bay to far right.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: not seen 2000.

Plate glass timber, sash and case windows with 'Glasgow School' stained glass to upper portions on ground floor; casements to canted windows. Grey slate roof; ashlar coped stacks to E and N; cast-iron rain water goods.

INTERIOR: Built-in white painted timber 'Glasgow School' style inglenook settles with pierced fretwork carving in drawing room; moulded cornice and rose.