History in Structure

Brownville, Balmalloch Road, Kilsyth

A Category B Listed Building in Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire

We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?

Upload Photo »

Approximate Location Map
Large Map »

Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9779 / 55°58'40"N

Longitude: -4.0688 / 4°4'7"W

OS Eastings: 271004

OS Northings: 678033

OS Grid: NS710780

Mapcode National: GBR 16.W9XH

Mapcode Global: WH4PX.G0PL

Plus Code: 9C7QXWHJ+5F

Entry Name: Brownville, Balmalloch Road, Kilsyth

Listing Name: Balmalloch Road, Brownville with Garden Walls and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 23 November 1990

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 380967

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36233

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Kilsyth, Balmalloch Road, Brownville
Brownville

ID on this website: 200380967

Location: Kilsyth

County: North Lanarkshire

Town: Kilsyth

Electoral Ward: Kilsyth

Traditional County: Stirlingshire

Tagged with: Villa

Find accommodation in
Kilsyth

Description

Villa dated 1878; shows influence of Alexander Thomson. 2-storey with large and handsome belvedere, built on raised terrace. Now (1990) sub-divided. Square on plan with asymmetrical elevations, service court with carriage house adjoining at rear. Stugged, coursed grey ashlar with painted contrasting dressings, base course, eaves course, bracketted eaves to slated piended platform roof, shouldered corniced stacks with decorative cans. Single windows, stone mullioned, bipartites and tripartites, chamfered arrises, plate-glass sashes.

E (MAIN ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bay doorway set between 2 bays to right. 6-panelled door with fanlight, corniced doorpiece with keystone, and roundels in spandrels.

S (garden) ELEVATION: 2 broad bays; projecting mullioned bay to left through 2 floors, pedimented with dated crest. Shallow advanced rectangular bay at ground to right, bipartite above. Low cast-iron balustrade to bays at 2nd floor.

W ELEVATION: 3-bay, later door to centre, stair window above, leaded, cill dropped.

BELVEDERE: raised on platform of piended roof. Broad overhanging cornice carried on pilasters, with subsidiary pilastrade threaded through and carrying frieze with discs.

Gates to service court at rear, piend-roofed carriage house with modern garage addition.

Square rubble WALLS enclosing house and garden, with 2 pairs of GATEPIERS to E, main gates to S with pyramidal capped gatepiers and cast-iton gates, later pedestrian gateway. Service gates to N.

Statement of Interest

Compares with villas at Winton Ave. Glasgow, and the villa areas of Pollockshaws and Lenzie (some of these buildings apparently by the firm of Thomson and Turnbull). The belvedere was probably a roof-top billiard room.

External Links

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

Other nearby listed buildings

BritishListedBuildings.co.uk is an independent online resource and is not associated with any government department. All government data published here is used under licence. Please do not contact BritishListedBuildings.co.uk for any queries related to any individual listed building, planning permission related to listed buildings or the listing process itself.

British Listed Buildings is a Good Stuff website.