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Latitude: 55.8793 / 55°52'45"N
Longitude: -4.3013 / 4°18'4"W
OS Eastings: 256132
OS Northings: 667518
OS Grid: NS561675
Mapcode National: GBR 09D.45
Mapcode Global: WH3P1.WHX7
Plus Code: 9C7QVMHX+PF
Entry Name: Northbank House, 5 Kensington Road, Glasgow
Listing Name: 5 Kensington Road, Northbank House and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 1 September 1982
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 375070
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB32537
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: 5 Kensington Road, Northbank House
ID on this website: 200375070
Location: Glasgow
County: Glasgow
Town: Glasgow
Electoral Ward: Partick East/Kelvindale
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Tagged with: Building
Mid 19th century. 2-storey villa with attics; lower, 2-storey
addition to E doubling size, 1893, Alexander Skirving
architect. Scottish Jacobean features. Stugged ashlar
coursers with polished dressings, bull-faced low plinth over
slope at N. N elevation (windows mostly mullioned with
hood-moulds): left (1893) range recessed, with crenellated
porch projecting from re-entrant angle; conical-roofed,
round, angle turret at left (mullioned and transomed windows)
rising above eaves. Porch has pointed doorway with moulded
reveals, hood-mould and fanlight; perron with arcaded
balustraded, bull-faced piers and retaining wall; 2
wrought-iron lamps. Range to right has ground floor
tripartite, gabled dormerhead with dummy gun loop over window
above; right bay slightly advanced, 2-storey canted window
below pointed attic light, gable with kneelers.
String at 1st floor cill level. Mostly apex stacks. Slate
roofs. 2-storey canted window on W elevation, and
gambrel-roofed single storey wash house at SE both by
Skirving.
Interior: front ground floor rooms and hall have decorative
plasterwork cornices and ribbed ceilings; carved wooden
chimney pieces in hall and dining room. Fitted, low,
bookshelf cabinets in library incorporating chimneypiece.
Stair has unusual wood-framed balustrade. Modern steel fire
escape from attic to 1st floor. Leaded glass stair and porch
windows.
2 pairs of chamfered, square, gatepiers with shaped pyramidal
caps linked by low retaining wall; all ashlar. Decorative
wrought-iron gates.
Additions for James Robertson Blackie. Formerly the French
Institute.
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