70-72 Falside Road, Paisley

55-57 Falside Road, Paisley comprises a group of twelve detached flatted villas, plus a single cottage, built between 1911 and 1913 by T Graham Abercrombie for workers at the adjacent Brown & Polson factory. Designed in the English Arts and Crafts style, they reflect garden city ideals and form an impressive, largely unaltered group. The cottages flank Falside Road on both the north and south sides, with a slightly later cottage positioned on the south side, and three variant designs appearing more randomly on the north side.

The south side of the road, numbers 55-101, consists of six identical two-storey, four-flat villas. These are entered via side doors and are raised on grassy banks; stone steps lead to the side doors to accommodate the slope of the land. Numbers 95-101 also have a tall basement. The villas have a Voyseian Swiss chalet appearance, with white harled walls, steeply pitched slated roofs, and gabled fronts where the centre bay slightly projects. The gable apexes feature half-timbering above the first-floor windows. Mullioned windows are arranged horizontally between the cill and band courses, with tripartite windows paired centrally and bipartite windows in the outer bays. Mullions are missing from the ground floor of number 59/61 and the first floor of number 87/89. Asymmetrically placed windows are present on the side and entrance elevations, and a pair of doors lead to the rear of the houses. Some alterations have been made to the original 12-pane sash and case glazing pattern. The villas have end stacks and a broad centre axial stack at the cross wall. The plain rear elevations are masked by two-storey flat-roofed additions.

On the north side of the road, numbers 70-116, there are six two-storey Arts and Crafts villas of three variant designs. Two are of the south side type (numbers 84 and 110-116, although the latter differs slightly by not having an advanced bay to the rear). Two of the villas have paired, half-timbered gablets above the eaves at the street elevation; two have plain street elevations. They have gambrel roofs and mutule brackets at the overhanging eaves. All three types have centre axial stacks and first-floor cill courses. The site slopes to the north, allowing for a third, basement storey to the north side overlooking Espedair Burn. Similar planning and detailing are present in all three types, with each containing four dwellings, paired side doors, and mullioned windows retaining the original 12-pane sash and case glazing pattern.