The Red House, 24 Victoria Place, Airdrie

The Red House, located at 24 Victoria Place in Airdrie, is a two-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan gabled villa built in 1897 by James Thomson. It features some Queen Anne architectural details and has a timber-framed conservatory on the left side of the front elevation. The exterior is made of squared and snecked red sandstone with ashlar dressings, while the rear is constructed of rubble. The building includes a base course, a continuous first-floor cill course, and barges boarding at the overhanging eaves. The windows are stone-mullioned bipartite types with chamfered reveals.

On the principal (south) elevation, stone steps lead to a central entrance bay with an open porch that shelters a timber panelled door. The opening has a stugged and blocked architrave with a broken pediment above, and there is a small window on the first floor. To the left, a slightly advanced window bay features a cornice above and terminates in a blocked parapet adorned with low relief floral panels. Above this bay, a swept bipartite dormer breaks the eaves. The right side has a slightly advanced gabled bay with an advanced canted window in the center, which also terminates in a blocked parapet with low relief floral panels. There is a bipartite window above, a stugged and blocked architrave, and a blind relieving arch with a projecting keystone. The apex of the gable is decorated with scrolled skewputts and a ball finial.

The west (side) elevation has a blind gable end with an advanced two-storey gabled bay to the right. The left return has irregular fenestration, while the right return features a shouldered gabled bay with an arrowslit in the gablehead and single windows on the first and second storeys. There is also a single-storey timber-framed gabled conservatory on a stone base with steps leading to its porch entrance.

The east (side) elevation shows scrolled skewputts on the central gable and has a single window on both the ground and first floors. The north (rear) elevation is three-storey with irregular fenestration.

The windows throughout are plate glass sash and case types, and the roof is covered with grey slates and ridge tiles. The building has cast-iron rainwater goods and chamfered coping on the skews and gable stacks.

The boundary wall and gatepiers consist of a low saddle-back coped squared rubble wall. The gatepiers are square-plan ashlar, blocked and feature a plain frieze inscribed with 'RED HOUSE', a cornice, and terminating ball finial caps.