Description

David Barclay, architect; 1902. Polished red ashlar house
occupying corner site and adjoining Dowanhill Street to S. 2
storeys and attics.
Asymmetrical 3-bay elevation to Victoria Crescent Road,
advanced bay to right steps to pilastered doorway with
double-leaf door with dentil moulding and curvilinear lintel
separating door from glazed rectangular fanlight. Flanking
door, leaded glass sidelights with bracketted cill and lintel
with strapwork pediment over. To left; 4-light bow window
returns round angle. To right, advanced bay with 4-light
mullioned projecting square window. Continuous moulded band
courses between ground and 1st floors; band course at eaves.
Timber bracketted eaves cornice; steeply pitched slate roof.
Pedimented dormers; at angle, 3-light bow dormer with
rock-faced stack emerging from conical roof. Red tiled ridge
and finial to conical roof of dormer.
Rear elevation with 2-storey advanced bay; stugged ashlar.
Ground floor with modern windows, 1st floor windows
tripartite with coloured leaded glass to some upper sashes,
otherwise plate glass glazing.
Low coped stugged red ashlar walls to garden supporting
square ashlar piers.

Statement of Interest

Part of Dowanside Road B group.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17810093

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)