Brownville, Balmalloch Road, Kilsyth

Brownville is a villa dated 1878 that reflects the influence of Alexander Thomson. It is a two-storey building with a large and attractive belvedere, situated on a raised terrace. As of 1990, the villa has been subdivided. The structure is square in plan with asymmetrical elevations and features a service court with an adjoining carriage house at the rear. The exterior is constructed of stugged, coursed grey ashlar with painted contrasting dressings, a base course, an eaves course, and bracketted eaves leading to a slated piended platform roof. The chimney stacks are shouldered and corniced, topped with decorative cans. The windows are single, stone mullioned, and include bipartite and tripartite configurations with chamfered arrises and plate-glass sashes.

The main entrance elevation faces east and features a three-bay doorway set between two bays to the right. It includes a six-panelled door with a fanlight, a corniced doorpiece with a keystone, and roundels in the spandrels. The south elevation, which faces the garden, has two broad bays, with a projecting mullioned bay to the left that extends through two floors and is pedimented with a dated crest. To the right, there is a shallow advanced rectangular bay at ground level, with a bipartite window above. A low cast-iron balustrade adorns the bays at the second floor.

The west elevation consists of three bays, with a later door added to the centre and a stair window above that has leaded glass and a dropped cill. The belvedere is raised on a platform with a piended roof, featuring a broad overhanging cornice supported by pilasters. A subsidiary pilastrade runs through and carries a frieze adorned with discs.

At the rear, there are gates leading to the service court, which includes a piend-roofed carriage house that has a modern garage addition. The house and garden are enclosed by square rubble walls, which feature two pairs of gatepiers to the east, main gates to the south with pyramidal capped gatepiers and cast-iron gates, and a later pedestrian gateway. Service gates are located to the north.