Kirkstyle Cottages are located on Kirkshaws Road,
Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire.
The cottages were built for the
Rev Sholto Douglas of the Douglas
Support estate, probably for estate employees.
Architect:
Thomas Smith, dated 1904; additions to E gable of eastmost block dated
1913. 2 pairs of single storey and attic, Tudor-style, near identical
and symmetrical, semi-detached cottages. Half timbered and harled, slate
roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, modern terracotta-type tiles to
oriels, tall brick stacks balustraded to top with fishscale-tiled gabled
caps. Multi-pane timber casement windows, some with out-of-character
modern replacements, oriels to ground floor, gabled dormers above.
Jettied attic floor, plain bargeboards.
FRONT ELEVATION: each pair
of cottages comprises central block with 2 oriels at ground floor
flanked by single windows, terracotta panel at centre, terracotta date
panel at centre of jettied at attic floor, 2 dormers, lychgate-type
entrance porches to left and right, single storey bays to far left and
right with oriel window and swept roof (except E cottage of westmost
block). Return gables, each slightly different, outshot at right return
of westmost block.
REAR ELEVATION: similar to front elevation.
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