Littlecroft, 21 Stonefield Avenue, Paisley

Littlecroft, located at 21 Stonefield Avenue in Paisley, is an Arts and Crafts house designed by James Steel Maitland in 1924, with additions made in 1925, 1929, and 1936. The building features three clustered blocks with piended, half-piended, and gabled roofs, linked to a single-storey day room pavilion. The exterior is rendered, with a rubble stone ground floor on the entrance elevation and a swept render course above. The roof includes skewputts that are corbelled on stepped stone tiles.

On the entrance elevation, there is a broad principal gable to the right, which includes a large bowed window set in a rectangular recess at the ground level and paired narrow windows on the first floor, each with a central shutter, panelled apron, and cill. An arrowslit is present in the gablehead. The right return features an advanced chimney breast flanked by narrow windows, with a partly jettied first floor. To the left, there is a lower stair bay adjacent to the principal bay, which has a timber mullioned tripartite window at the ground level (under the stair) and a narrow landing window above with a tile-hung apron. A tall narrow stair window is located on the left return by the re-entrant angle formed with the recessed entrance block, which has a segmental-arched doorway flanked by a small window and a tripartite window above.

The conservatory and day room, added in 1936, are linked to the house by a piend-roofed conservatory featuring a rendered base, gridded timber windows, and a glazed roof. There is a further glazed porch to the outer right leading to a steeply pitched, piend-roofed pavilion with an angle window and an adjoining carport canopy, along with a tall rendered stack.

At the rear, a roof garden was added in 1936. The house has small-pane casement windows and brown tiles, with rendered and coped stacks, although two have been removed. Later flush rooflights have been inserted.

The interior, which was not seen in 1997, was described by Hamilton as originally making the most of limited space, featuring a sunk bath under the stair, built-in cupboards, and much stained woodwork.