Wilmar, 11 South Avenue, Paisley

Wilmar is a two-storey, three-bay villa built in 1908 by W D McLennan, featuring a piend roof with some bell-cast first-floor bays, mock half-timbering, and a fine interior. The exterior is harled with sandstone dressings, and it includes stone mullions and a transomed stair window.

On the principal elevation, all windows are canted with small upper sashes, and those on the first floor are positioned close to the eaves. The central bay features a four-part window on each floor, while the left gable is advanced and has a four-part sandstone-margined window at ground level, which abuts a jettied and bell-cast first floor with a four-part window beneath a jettied gablehead. The right bay has a tripartite window at ground level and a bell-cast first floor with a six-part window below a polygonal roof.

The entrance elevation has a right bay with a tripartite window above a bell-cast first floor bay over a porch supported by an outer ashlar pier. It features a set-back timber door with a small adjacent window to the right. The central bay has a small deep-set window just below a raised chimney breast that rises through the eaves into a tall stack. The left bay is blank.

The rear elevation is stepped and includes a six-light transomed stair window at the center, with an advanced piended bay to the right that has a single-storey lean-to at ground level and a canted tripartite window on the first floor.

The windows are a mix of two-pane, four-pane, and plate glass upper sashes over plate glass lower sections in timber sash and case frames, with coloured leaded glass on the ground floor of the east elevation. The roof is covered in grey slates with terracotta ridge tiles, and the harled stacks, one of which is truncated, have cans. The eaves are overhanging with plain bargeboarding.

Inside, the original decorative scheme remains largely intact, except for the drawing room fireplace. There is plain cornicing, timber-panelled doors with matching coloured glass upper panels, and a panelled hall with a fireplace backing that of the morning room. The dining room features a timber fire surround and overmantel, while the morning room has an overmantel with flanking cupboards and shelves in a vernacular Arts and Crafts style. The drawing room to the east includes a four-pane coloured glass window depicting a small sailing ship.

The property is also accessed through decorative ironwork gates.