Holmhurst, 9 South Avenue, Paisley

Holmhurst is a villa dating from 1902, designed by Thomas Graham Abercrombie. It is a two-storey and attic, three-bay building with mock half-timbered and cantilevered gable detailing. The exterior is whitewashed harl with polished sandstone dressings, and features a moulded eaves course. A polygonal-roofed, corbelled porch has a keystoned round-headed window, and a first-floor cill course. Transoms and mullions are present throughout.

The south (principal) elevation is symmetrical, with a broad gabled form. A transomed window is centrally placed at ground level, flanked by sandstone bays featuring canted eight-light transomed windows. A jettied centre panel has a semicircular hoodmould, with horizontally-aligned tripartite windows flanking it, all sheltered under a uniting corniced hoodmould. A smaller horizontal tripartite window sits in the gablehead, abutting the half-timbering.

The east (entrance) elevation features a central bay with a squat, canted two-storey entrance stair, corbelled to square at the first floor, and topped with a lean-to porch. A keystoned round-headed window is present on the canted ground floor, with a timber door under the lean-to porch, and a small window on the return to the right. A four-part canted window above leads to a finialled, polygonal red-tiled roof. A broad gable is to the left, with a shouldered stack breaking the skew, and a small bipartite window in the gablehead. A further bipartite window is located in the bay to the right at ground level, with a flat-roofed bipartite breaking the eaves above.

The west elevation displays a variety of elements across an asymmetrically fenestrated design, including a gable with flanking tall stacks to the right and a swept roof to the left.

The north (rear) elevation is a broad gabled form with two windows to each floor on the right, a projecting chimney breast to the left, and a four-part horizontal window in the gablehead. A single-story piended porch extends from the outer right.

The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane and 6-pane over plate glass glazing, with one round-headed window featuring a decoratively astragalled semicircle over a casement. The roof is covered in grey slates and red tiles, with flat-coped harled stacks topped with cans. Deeply overhanging eaves include plain bargeboarding, terracotta ridge tiles, and finials.

The interior retains a fine period decorative scheme, including decorative cornicing, panelled timber doors – some with Art Nouveau coloured leaded glass top panels – and timber fire surrounds. The dining room features a compartmented ceiling, timber detail, and a plate shelf incorporating a fire surround with a semicircular overmantel and inset mirror. A timber-balustered dog-leg stair has a ball-finialled newel and a timber-lined stair to an attic billiard room. A butler's pantry has part-glazed cupboards.

A flat-coped rubble terrace wall, with central steps and flanking stone urns, is also part of the property.