Foxburn, 17 South Avenue, Paisley

Foxburn is a villa dating to 1905, designed by J Craig Barr and Cook. It is a single and two-storey, three-bay building featuring a prominent storm gable. The exterior is primarily whitewashed harl, accented with ashlar dressings and cills. A distinctive feature is the canopied, roll-moulded, round-headed doorpiece, detailed with tabbed margins. The windows are a mix of timber sash and case and transomed mullion styles, with stone transoms and mullions.

The south elevation displays a single-storey central bay with a corniced bipartite window. To the left is a two-storey, canted storm gable incorporating three windows on each floor, and a shield with a Saltire design in the gablehead. The right-hand bay of the south elevation is also two-storey, with a battered base leading to a flat-roofed, rectangular ashlar bay containing a tripartite window with narrower returns and a bipartite window on the first floor.

The east (entrance) elevation presents principal bays to the left, featuring a deep-set, part-glazed panelled timber door and a canopy. Flanking this are projecting, flat-roofed corniced bays with small windows and narrow lights. The central bay above has a four-light transomed bipartite window culminating in a semicircular pediment. Recessed flanking bays are present with a window to the right and a square stack breaking the eaves to the left. A small, finialled gable sits centrally behind. To the right is a bay with a bipartite window at ground level and a single window above, extending into a slightly advanced piend-roofed bay with a door and narrow light at ground level.

The west elevation has an advanced gable featuring a transomed tripartite window at ground level and a further tripartite window at the first floor. A shouldered stack pierces the eaves in the re-entrant angle to the right.

The north (rear) elevation is stepped and incorporates a variety of elements, including a jettied first-floor bay to the outer left, with a canted tripartite window that breaks into a polygonal roof, and a small, single-storey, piended bay to the outer right.

The windows have 6- and 8-pane glazing patterns over plate glass lower sashes, with plate glass glazing in other timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slates and terracotta ridge tiles. The stacks are grey-harled with flat, rounded copings, cans, and ashlar-coped skews. Overhanging eaves incorporate plain bargeboarding.

The interior retains original timber detailing in the hall, stairwell, and landing. A butler’s pantry is also present, featuring part-glazed cupboards.

The property is enclosed by saddleback-coped, squared rubble boundary walls, with dome-capped, circular ashlar gatepiers.