Haxton House, 18-20 Silverwells Crescent, Bothwell

Haxton House is a later 19th-century house with subsequent alterations and additions, including a modern conservatory to the rear (north). It is a three-storey house with an attic, originally designed with a near-symmetrical four-bay layout, with a later bay set back to the left. The house is constructed of stugged red sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. The ground floor features a base course, a cornice, and a blank frieze to the square bays. Openings have chamfered reveals, aproned cills, stone transoms and mullions, hood moulds, and stop-chamfered long and short quoins.

The south (principal) elevation is characterized by steps with trefoil terminals leading to a recessed, point-arched doorway with columnar and cavetto mouldings and small trefoil motifs to the spandrels. The doorway has a two-leaf timber panelled door with a point-arched fanlight. A bipartite window is located at the first floor above the doorway, and a point-arched single window is positioned within the gable at the second floor. A narrow dormer window is set to the left above. A projecting five-light square bay is present at ground level, with a bipartite window at the first floor and a single window to the gable above. Quatrefoil motifs decorate the gableheads. To the outer left, a recessed bay features a deep-set, pointed-arched doorway with trefoil motifs in the spandrels, a replacement two-leaf timber panelled door with a pointed-arched fanlight, a single window at the first floor, and a single window to the gable at the second floor.

The north (rear) elevation is irregular, comprising four bays grouped 2-2 with an M-gabled block to the left and a lower, single 2-bay gable to the right. The M-gabled block on the left features a conservatory at ground level and a single window at each floor above. A three-light projecting square bay is located at ground level, with a single window at each floor above. The 2-storey gabled block to the right has a single window in each bay at each floor.

The west (side) elevation is irregular, with five bays grouped 2-1-2, and includes the gabled side of the original block centered. A later projecting two-bay block is attached to the right, with a replacement uPVC door in the left bay. The central bay features a window at the first floor and another at the second floor. A two-storey gabled block extends to the outer left, with a window at each floor in each bay.

The east (side) elevation is irregular and features a harled lean-to porch raised by steps, with a window above. A window is present at each floor in the remaining bay.

The house is predominantly fitted with two-pane timber sash and case windows, with some replacement uPVC windows to the sides and rear. The roof is covered in grey slate, with short ashlar coped stacks to the east and west ends of the original block, ridged ashlar skews, and cast-iron rainwater goods, with some uPVC replacements.

The interior was not inspected in 1997.

Short, square-plan painted sandstone gatepiers with truncated pyramidal caps mark the entrance. Low stugged pink sandstone boundary walls with ridged ashlar cope, and sections that are tall and stepped and coped, enclose the property.