Makerston House, 19 Park Road, Paisley

Makerston House, located at 19 Park Road in Paisley, is a two-storey L-plan villa designed in the English Arts and Crafts style by James Craig Barr and Harry Cook in 1905, with an additional L-plan wing added to the east in 1950. The villa features mock half-timbering on the upper secondary gables and has irregularly placed windows with stone mullions on the ground floor.

The entrance is canted and situated in the re-entrant angle, featuring a door within a carved stone surround that has a segmental pediment. This entrance is flanked by single and bipartite windows on either side. Above, there are flat-roofed tripartite dormers to the left and right, with advanced outer gables that have swept roofs and timber bargeboards. The walls are rendered and painted white, with sandstone margins around the windows.

On the south garden elevation, the house has five bays, plus a four-bay later wing to the right that includes bipartite windows on both the ground and first floors. The advanced gabled bay to the center left has tripartite windows on both levels, while the outer left features a quadripartite window with a similar dormer above. There is a central square stair tower topped with a parapet, a copper dome, and a finial, which includes a stone mullioned and transomed stained glass window, along with a single window on the ground floor. The gabled bay to the center right has bipartite windows on both floors, and the outer right bay contains a bipartite window on the ground floor and a tripartite dormer above.

The west gable features an expressed chimneystack that rises from the ground, accompanied by small arched inglenook windows and single windows on the outer sides. The villa has small pane glazing in metal-framed casement windows, a roof covered in rosemary tiles with terracotta ridge tiles, and rendered stacks with broad ashlar copes and clay cans.

The interior was not seen in 2003. There is also a detached single-storey outbuilding to the north of the house, which has a pitched roof, mock timbering on the gable, and a semi-circular window.