The Rowans, Braehead Road, Invergowrie

The Rowans is a villa built around 1900, featuring a single storey and attic with a rectangular plan and gabled roof. The exterior is constructed of stugged and snecked rubble with stugged ashlar dressings, topped with a piended slate roof and black serrated ridge tiles. It has a base course and deep bracketed eaves on the south and east sides, plain bargeboards, and decorative cast-iron rainwater goods. The windows are mainly plate glass sash and case, with stop-chamfered jambs on the south and east elevations.

On the east elevation, the entrance is located at the centre of a re-entrant angle, shielded by a timber panelled and multi-pane glazed porch with a swept roof. To the left is a single window, and to the right is a bipartite window that is slightly advanced. A battered corniced stack rises through the eaves, and there is a steep gabled dormer with a round-headed window to the right. Additionally, there is a pentice-roofed addition at the far right corner.

The south elevation features a bay on the left with a 3-light canted window and a bell-cast gable above that contains a tripartite window. At the gable apex, there is a large grotesque representation of the devil. To the right is another tripartite window, and a gabled dormer rises through the eaves with a stepped round-headed tripartite window. There is also an original conservatory on a rubble base to the left, which has a later lean-to addition.

The west elevation is single storey and has an L-plan with a piended-roofed kitchen projection at the ground floor. A large stack rises from the main wallhead at the centre.

On the north elevation, there is a window at the centre, a round-headed stair window with a gabled dormer head rising through the eaves, and a bipartite window to the right. At the far right, there is a door and window leading to the kitchen bay.

Inside, the villa features a polygonal central hall, a decorative encaustic tile lobby floor, some original chimneypieces, original joinery, decorative ceiling cornices, and an Art-Nouveau stair window.

The property is also complemented by ornate cast-iron gates, two capped ashlar gatepiers with small quadrants, and a boundary wall made of stugged and snecked, round-coped rubble to the north.