Garage, Laigh Park, Park Road, Johnstone

Circa 1870, interior altered circa 1900 after fire. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay, L-plan villa. Ashlar with squared and snecked rubble to sides and rear, ashlar dressings. Part base course. Round-headed, ball-finialled, concave-moulded doorpiece and hoodmoulded round-headed 1st floor windows to SE. Stone mullions and moulded arrises.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Centre bay at ground with steps and flanking dwarf walls, 2-leaf timber door and semicircular plate glass fanlight; flanking bays

each with canted tripartite with cornice and blocking course giving way to single window breaking eaves into broad stone dormerhead.

SW ELEVATION: gabled elevation with 2 windows (grouped toward centre) at 1st floor.

NE ELEVATION: as SW elevation but with further window to outer right at ground.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: bay to right of centre at ground with rectangular-plan tripartite and narrower light to each return, adjacent small window to left; stair window off-centre right and 2 small vertically-aligned windows immediately to left; 1st floor with windows to outer bays breaking eaves into finialled dormerheads,

canted tripartite timber dormer (with small outer lights) to centre and small flat-roofed dormer (with casement or fixed windows) to right. Pitch-roofed single storey projection to outer left with door to right, bipartite immediately to left and blind oculus in gablehead, further door and windows to right return, and 3 windows to left return.

4-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows; decoratively-astragalled leaded margin glazing to stair window. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with some cans. Overhanging eaves and plain bargeboarding. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers to SE.

INTERIOR: good early decorative scheme in place. Decorative and plain plasterwork cornices; marble and timber

fireplaces; parquet floors; sash lifts. Vestibule with mosaic-tiled floor leading to tripartite screen door with segmental fanlight with leaded coloured glass (as stair window); hall with fireplace; timber-panelled dog-leg staircase.

ANCILLARY STRUCTURE: harled and slated rectangular-plan double garage with double piend and decorative terracotta ridge tiles. Paired 2-leaf part-glazed timber garage doors to SE; 3 windows to SW and further window to NW, all with plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: ashlar-coped squared and snecked rubble boundary walls and pyramidally-coped square-section bull-faced gatepiers with decorative 2-leaf ironwork gates.