Westwood, 4 Mill Road, Bothwell

Westwood, 4 Mill Road, Bothwell

Westwood is a late 19th-century villa, possibly designed by John Baird, with later alterations and additions. It is a two-storey asymmetrical six-bay villa (now divided), with a tall gabled bay to the right and a lower, probably service-related gabled bay to the left. The building features a single storey to the right, with advanced and recessed planes, a square-plan flat-roofed porch set in an angle to the right of centre, and a modern garage to the outer left.

The exterior is constructed of stugged and snecked pink sandstone ashlar with polished ashlar dressings. Detailing includes a base course, a cill course at ground floor level, a band and string course to the ground floor, and a slightly corbelled cornice above the ground floor. Ground floor windows have aprons and keystoned, round-arched hood moulds, while first floor windows feature bracketed cills and keystone surrounds, with one window having a columnar mullion. Droved strip quoins mark the angles of the building.

The east elevation, facing the entrance, is asymmetrical. It includes a round-arched window to the advanced porch in the bay to the right of centre, with a small window at first floor above. Steps lead to a round-arched doorway in the left return, fitted with a two-leaf part stained glass panelled door. A window and narrow flanking window appear at ground level in the gabled bay to the right, with a round-arched window at first floor above. A window sits in the recessed single storey bay to the outer right. To the left of the porch is a window at ground level in a bay, with a blind slit at first floor above. A slightly recessed gabled bay to the penultimate left contains a ground floor window with a bipartite, round-arched window at first floor above. A round-arched doorway set to the right in a recessed bay to the outer left features two-leaf boarded doors and a replacement part-glazed vestibule door with rectangular fanlight, with a blind slit at first floor above. A modern archway adjacent to the flat-roofed garage with a modern door marks the extreme left.

The west principal elevation is irregular, presenting two storeys across four bays grouped as 2-1-1, with a lower gabled bay to the right, a single storey gabled bay to the outer right, and a blank pitched wall set back to the outer left. The centre bay contains a three-light round-arched window at ground level and three blind slits evenly disposed at first floor above. The gabled bay to the outer left has a three-light canted window at ground and a round-arched window at first floor above. The advanced gabled bay to the right features bipartite round-arched windows at both ground and first floor levels. A replacement boarded door set to the left in an advanced single storey bay to the outer right has a gablehead stack above, with two windows unevenly disposed in the left return.

The north side elevation is a three-bay single storey block with a stair window set to the centre. It includes a replacement door at ground level in the centre bay, a bipartite window flanking to the left, and a window set wide to the right. Two tall wallhead stacks stand above to the outer left and right. A boarded cellar door with sunken steps accesses the main wall set back to the outer right.

The south side elevation is irregular with M-gabled forms across three bays, possibly originally a service block, with a single storey block to the outer left. A further, higher level M-gabled south side of the main block sits set back above. A window at ground level in the centre bay is matched by a round-arched window at first floor above. A tall stair window at first floor appears in the bay to the right, with a narrow window flanking at ground level. Windows sit in each M-gabled bay set back to the main block, with gablehead stacks above. A small window set to the right appears in the single storey bay to the left.

Windows throughout are predominantly two-pane timber sash and case windows, with four-pane timber sash and case windows to the single storey flanking blocks. A fixed replacement stair window serves the north elevation. The roof is covered in grey slate, with slate to the single storey blocks, a flat roof to the porch, and a corrugated iron flat roof to the garage. Ashlar coped stacks rise above the north and south elevations of the main block and at the southwest angle at the rear. The bargeboards are painted plain timber, and rainwater goods are cast iron with some uPVC replacements.

The interior retains architraved, timber panelled doors, skirting boards and cornices. A floriate bordered panelled ceiling spans the stairwell, and a pitched glazed ceiling covers the billiard room on the first floor.

The boundary walls are constructed of low sandstone with curved cope and replacement wrought-iron railings linking two sets of gatepiers. The northern piers are square-plan with a plain blank panel, cornice and scalloped hemispherical cap. The southern piers are square-plan with a triple-bossed frieze, moulded cornice and shallow pyramidal cap. Replacement wrought-iron gates hang between the piers.