2 Stuart Street, East Kilbride

Earlier 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay, L-plan traditional corner tenement with curved angle recess and shops at ground floor, 2-storey wing to SW. Tooled coursed sandstone, painted; tooled sandstone rubble wing. Base course; dividing band course; eaves course and cornice; projecting cills.

NE (STUART STREET) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; corniced and pilastered doorway to centre of ground floor, supported on tapered octagonal brackets; windows flanking to left and right; 2 windows to 1st floor; curved angle to outer right, 2-leaf glazed timber door to ground floor, single architraved window to 1st floor.

NW (HUNTER STREET) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3-bay; blind window to centre of ground floor, flanked to right by doorway and window, single window to flanking bay to left; 2 windows to right of 1st floor, flanked to left by blind window.

SW ELEVATION: gabled; single storey neighbour abutting at ground floor; flanking bays to right not seen 2001.

SE ELEVATION: 3-bay; harled gabled bay to right, single window off-centre of left of ground and 1st floors, left return blank; recessed bay flanking to left, steps rising from ground floor, curving round to left at 1st floor, 12-pane timber lying-pane window to recessed 1st floor above. Gabled 2-storey wing advanced to bay to left; blank, irregular openings to ground floor of right return, 3 regularly placed windows to 1st floor, doorway to outer right reached by steps (see above).

Plate glass timber sash and case windows to ground floor; 2-pane timber sash and case windows to 1st floor; variety of timber sash and case windows to wing. Grey slate roof with lead ridges. Coped stone skews. Corniced wallhead stack and coped gablehead stack with circular cans; stack removed to E gable.

INTERIOR: not seen 2001.