27 Main Street, Drymen

27 Main Street, Drymen

A mid to late 19th-century villa with a later addition, now a single storey and attic structure arranged in a T-plan. The main block is a 3-bay building with a single storey service wing to the north, originally constructed as a separate structure. The building is distinguished by prominent gables to the principal south elevation, which feature elaborately carved timber bargeboards.

The main block is built in coursed stugged sandstone, less finely coursed to the sides and rear, with partly droved ashlar dressings. The service wing is constructed in coursed rubble with stugged red sandstone dressings, except for a rendered infill section. A base course runs along the main block, and the building has deep overhanging eaves. Chamfered window reveals are found on the principal elevation only. Red sandstone quoins mark the arrises, and red sandstone long and short work surrounds the openings to the service wing, apart from the rendered infill section.

The principal south elevation presents a symmetrical arrangement. A central entrance is surmounted by a bracketed cornice with a false stepped parapet above. The entrance is formed by a panelled timber door with a 2-light rectangular fanlight. Flanking this are gabled bays with filigree-like carved bargeboards; the left gable retains a spiked finial and pendant finial, whilst those to the right gable are missing. Each bay has windows to both ground and upper floors; those to the ground floor are mullioned bipartites with shallow hoodmoulds.

The west elevation features the main block to the right, with a gabled projecting section also to the right. A ground floor window with shallow hoodmould sits to the right of this projection, with a window above to the left, and another ground floor window to the left return. A pair of narrow windows set back serves the rear wing to the left. The single storey service wing adjoins to the left. A slightly taller single bay section with a window occupies the centre, with a 2-bay section adjoining to the left, each bay having a window. An entrance with a finialled gabled porch with stepped bargeboards sits to the left of a 20th-century rendered infill section to the right; tree trunks flank the porch entrance. Windows serve both outer returns, and a boarded timber door is set back. A further window is located to the right.

The east elevation similarly displays the main block to the left with a gabled projecting section also to the left. A ground floor window sits to the left of this projection, with one above to the right, and another ground floor window to the left return. An entrance with a bracketed roof porch set back serves the rear wing to the right, featuring a boarded timber door and 2-light rectangular fanlight. A window sits to the right. A narrow window occupies the left of the ground floor to the right return of the rear wing, with a pair of windows to the gable above. The single storey service wing adjoins, set back to the right. A slightly taller single bay section with a window occupies the centre. An adjoining section to the right has three entrances, one serving a lean-to to the outer right. A projecting section with catslide roof and a pair of windows sits to the right of an earlier 20th-century rendered infill section to the left.

The windows throughout are mainly 6 and 12-pane timber sash and case windows with lying-pane glazing to the main block, whilst the service wing features multi-pane casements and fixed frames. The roofs are covered in grey slate. Corniced gablehead stacks with octagonal cans sit to either side (east and west) of the original main block, with one to the rear north side.

The interior was only partially inspected in 1999. An infill section to the service wing retains original fixed office furniture of circa 1930, comprising a timber counter with panelled and pilastered front, a panelled screen with decorative turned rails to the upper section, and original panelled doors.