The Anchorage, 54 Victoria Place, Airdrie

The Anchorage, located at 54 Victoria Place in Airdrie, is a B-listed villa designed by James Shaw in 1894. This two-storey, three-bay building features a rectangular plan and an asymmetrical Free Style design. It has a swept Mansard roof and a drum tower with a conical roof on the left side. The exterior is constructed from bull-faced yellow sandstone with ashlar margins, and it includes a base course and a continuous moulded band at the height of the door lintel.

On the principal (south) elevation, there is a depressed-entrance arch at the center leading to a two-leaf timber panelled door with a billeted timber lintel and a fanlight above. A consoled canopy with chamfered spandrels is positioned above the entrance. To the right, a three-light window features shouldered arch openings with billeted lintels and pilastered mullions. This section also has a consoled canopy and decorative carving on a scalloped ashlar panel that connects the canopy to the first-floor window sill. On the left, there is a semicircular advanced window bay with shouldered arch openings, billeted lintels, pilastered mullions, and chamfered cills. It also has a frieze below bracketed timber projecting eaves, decorative cast-iron cresting, and a swept roof over the first-floor window. A small semicircular-arched dormer is located at the center, while a semicircular-arched bipartite window is found in the gabled wallhead dormer on the right side, featuring decorative barge boarding. An advanced four-light window bay on the left breaks the eaves of the first floor, with semicircular-arched openings and mutuled eaves that support a conical roof, topped with a decorative cast-iron finial.

The rear (north) elevation is a single storey with an advanced service wing at the center. It features a broad gabled dormer that breaks the eaves and includes a painted oval depicting a ship in the center of the glass, flanked by smaller gabled dormers.

Both the east and west side elevations are blind. The windows are made of plate glass and timber-framed sash and case, with some leaded panes on the front elevation at ground level. The roof is covered with grey slates and lead flashing, and there are coped wallhead stacks with decorative cans on the west side.

The interior was not seen in 2001. The property is enclosed by a low saddle-back coped boundary wall with modern railings. The square-plan gatepiers feature small plinths, chamfered columns, a fluted frieze, a cornice, and small semicircular pediments on the sides of the swept pyramidal caps.