Newark House, Manor Park Avenue, Paisley

Newark House, located on Manor Park Avenue in Paisley, was built for Thomas Greenlees between 1900 and 1902. This two-storey, four-bay Baronial villa has been subdivided and was extended by J Steel Maitland in 1931, which included a bulky three-storey tower and further additions made later. The building is constructed of bull-faced red sandstone with ashlar dressings, featuring ashlar mullions and transoms, as well as an eaves course.

On the north (entrance) elevation, the original villa is situated to the left, with a projecting porch to the right of the center. The parapet is swept up at angles and features a carved strapworked panel. The round-arched doorway has a rope-moulded surround and is flanked by narrow sidelights, with a bipartite window above it and additional bipartite windows on both floors of the flanking bay to the left of center. The bay to the right is gabled, containing windows at the ground level flanking an oval oculus, a dominant bowed stone oriel at the first floor, and a bipartite window in the gablehead. The outer left bay is gabled and advanced, featuring corner bartizans, each with a small light above a string course, a tripartite window at the ground level, a bipartite window at the first floor, and a narrow light in the gablehead, along with a bowed window at the ground of the gabled return to the left. The tower on the outer right is advanced, with a small tripartite window at the ground level, a projecting, corbelled four-light window in an ashlar panel above, and a bipartite window on the second floor. It also has a stepped parapet and a corbelled corner turret with a small hoodmoulded window.

The south (rear) elevation features the original villa with bipartite windows on each floor of the central bays, the first-floor windows having substantial crowstepped gableheads. The outer bay to the right has a projecting full-height four-light window, while the bay to the left mirrors the northern elevation, with two windows at the ground level, a bowed oriel above, and a bipartite window in the gablehead. There is also a later addition and a gabled bay to the outer left. The windows are plate glass timber sash and case. The roofs are covered with grey-green slates, fishscale on the conical roofs of the bartizans of the original villa, and feature lead flashing and ball finials. The building has corniced ridge and gablehead stacks with clay cans, as well as decorative rainwater hoppers. The interior was subdivided around the year 2000.