4 Hamilton Road, Bothwell

4 Hamilton Road, Bothwell

A baronial revival villa dating to circa 1897, with later alterations and additions. The building was flatted in 1961 and retains substantial original architectural character despite modern interventions.

The main structure is two storeys over a basement with an attic, rendered in stugged pink sandstone with bull-faced sandstone at basement level and polished ashlar dressings throughout. The asymmetrical three-bay design is dominated by a full-height five-light cylindrical tower to the right with a conical roof. A modern harled addition has been added to the rear.

Architectural details include a base course, band courses between ground and first floors of the tower and at its top, a cill course to first-floor tower windows, and an eaves course. Windows are framed with moulded surrounds featuring chamfered cills. The door and flanking windows carry a hood mould. The first-floor windows have cornices with decorative carved pediments. Long and short quoins with droved angles punctuate the elevations.

The south-west elevation facing the entrance features an architraved doorway with a two-leaf timber panelled door approached by a ground-level stair, flanked by a narrow window. Above is a single transomed window with a carved trefoil pediment. A four-light canted bay at ground level sits in the left bay, with a bipartite window bearing a carved strapwork pediment at first floor. A narrow window rises into the crowstepped gable. A redundant gablehead stack with a terminal die crowns this elevation. The cylindrical tower displays a five-light transomed window; its basement contains a boarded door and two blinded windows.

The north-east rear elevation is irregular with a single-bay addition to the left, a central stair projection, and an advanced projection to the right. Two windows light the centre stair projection at ground level, with a tripartite stair window above. A modern boarded door sits to the left at ground level; the right projection features a blank bay with irregular fenestration to its left return.

The south-east side elevation is two storeys and two bays with the tower to the left and a lower single-bay two-storey addition to the outer right. A three-light canted bay occupies the centre ground level, topped by a bipartite window with carved strapwork pediment and a narrow crowstepped gable window with ball finial. The left bay contains single windows at ground and first floors, with a crowstepped gable window and ball finial above. A modern two-leaf timber panelled door and modern first-floor window mark the right projection.

The north-west elevation is irregular, comprising seven bays grouped as four and three. The three-bay main block contains single windows at ground level in the centre bay and bipartite windows in the left bay, with trefoil-pediment first-floor windows above. A single transomed window lights the right bay at ground level. The lower four-bay projection to the left has a boarded door at ground level left of centre with a window above, and a boarded door with window above in the right-centre bay. Windows occupy each floor in the outer-right bay; a bipartite ground window and single first-floor window mark the outer-left bay.

Windows are predominantly two-pane timber sash and case with small-pane fixed sections above transoms, many incorporating mullions and transoms. Stained glass appears in the stair window and elsewhere. The roof comprises grey slate piended and pitched sections with red clay ridging. Ashlar-coped stacks rise from the main pitch and are irregularly disposed to the rear. Cast-iron rainwater goods complete the exterior.

The interior, partially visible during survey in 1997, features a deep foliate cornice and picture rail in the principal room at the west angle, a plaster-panelled ceiling in the principal ground-floor room at the south angle, and a cornice to the stair hall. The stair window incorporates stained glass.