Lusset House, Lusset Road, Old Kilpatrick

Lusset House, built around 1865-1880, is a two-storey symmetrical villa featuring early French Gothic details, associated with the William Leiper school. The building has a basically square plan with a central lozenge and a taller roof. It is constructed of stugged and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings, a plinth, and a first-floor cill course. The tall windows have plain incised roll-mouldings and plate-glass sash and case glazing. The roofs are slated, with an east-west cross-roof that is more steeply pitched than the shallow piended main north-south roof, which has broad overhanging eaves. There are a pair of tall coped stacks that clasp the central roof, positioned forward of the ridge of the main roof.

On the west elevation, there is a three-light, full-height semi-circular bowed projection at the center, topped with a conical slated roof that sweeps back over the high-pitched east-west roof. The windows in the flanking sections are pushed out to the outer angles and are uniquely treated: at the ground level (identical on the north and south), there are squat angle shafts on a chamfered plinth that emerge from the ground floor base course, rising to three-quarters of the height of the opening. These shafts are ringed midway and feature bulbous, naturalistically sculptured capitals. Above, there is a stilted chamfered (polygonal) section leading to the lintel of the ground floor window. Further sections are corbelled out to support urns at the first-floor cill level. The first-floor features a 3-light canted window that turns at an angle, with the center pane recessed and the mullions adorned with tall slim colonettes. A timber pendant is present on the soffit of the deeply projecting eaves.

The timber entrance porch is located at the center of the north elevation, with jambs that have chamfered angles and are lobed to form stylized capitals at the top. It features a segmental-arched doorcase and a piended slate roof.

On the rear (east) elevation, there are various low, single-storey lean-to projections with slate roofs, including a semi-circular full-height projection at the center that mirrors the one on the west. This projection has a slated conical roof that sweeps back into the tall east-west roof, with overhanging eaves and a window band immediately below that is continuously glazed with narrow timber mullion divisions. There is an elaborate metal vent at the apex, which is circular at the base and square at the top, featuring intricately scalloped and cusped openwork valances. Very tall, square-plan stacks rise from the single-storey lean-tos.