13A And 13B Blantyre Mill Road, Bothwell

Later 19th century with later alterations and additions. 2-storey 3-bay symmetrical rectangular-plan Italianate house with later flat-roofed porch to E side and single storey addition to rear. Tooled pink ashlar sandstone with polished dressings. Base course; bracketed decorative cast-iron balconies to 1st floor windows; cill course to 1st floor; eaves course beneath deep bracketed eaves. Plain mullioned windows at ground with raised cills; columnar mullions to triple and bipartite round-arched windows at 1st floor. Square-plan piend roofed garage with modern door to rear.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-bay with single bay porch set back to outer left. Cavetto moulded doorpiece with deep bracketed cornice above; 2-leaf timber panelled door with rectangular fanlight; bipartite window at 1st floor above. Bipartite window at ground with 3-light window at 1st floor in bays flanking. Modern timber panelled door with window flanking to porch.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay with tall window to centre of advanced porch in bay to right of centre. Window at ground in bay to left. Wallhead stack above.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: single bay addition to rear of main block with bipartite at each floor and wallhead stack set to centre above; single storey, 5-bay, L-plan projection to rear with modern door in bay to angle and window in each remaining bay.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay with single storey, piend roofed block spanning bay to centre and to right with window to each bay; window in each bay at 1st floor above. L-plan projection at ground in bay to left; window at 1st floor above.

2-pane timber sash and case windows (6-, 4- and 12-pane windows to rear and sides) with modern window to L-plan addition. Grey slate piended roof; slate to additions; modern felt covering to garage and to porch; ashlar coped stacks to E and W wallheads; cast-iron rainwater goods with some uPVC replacements to rear.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1997.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: 2 pairs of square-plan gatepiers with rounded angles and channelled faces; string course, cornice and shallow pyramidal cap. Piers to 13A (E) painted. Squared and stugged sandstone wall with ridged ashlar cope.