These are some of my favourite townhouses in the west end of Glasgow. Situated on Dowanside Road, they were designed by David Barclay and were built around 1900 as part of a development of similar houses in this area.
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Built in the 1870s, its first occupant is listed as being Hugh Baird Junior of Hugh Baird and Sons, Maltsters and Hop Merchants.
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A large, and interestingly shaped, double villa in the Dowanhill area of Glasgow. The brattishing (decorative ironwork on the top of the roof) is a particularly nice feature.
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A rather wonderful Corbelled Tourelle (a small circular turret with a conical roof) on the corner of an 1870s/1880s Victorian Townhouse in the West End of Glasgow.
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Red sandstone townhouses on Dowanhill Street in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by David Barclay, they were built around 1990.
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James Thompson's 1858 gently curving terrace of grand Classical townhouses on Crown Circus in the west end of Glasgow.
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A rather beautiful 1900 townhouse, designed by David Barclay, on Dowanhill Street in the West End of Glasgow.
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The townhouses of Athole Gardens lit by the early morning sun. These houses were built in 1878 as homes for the city's gowing number of professionals, including stockbrokers, engineers and solicitors.
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Designed in a Gothic style by the ecclesiastical architects Pugin and Pugin, it was built in 1898, with later additions in 1909.
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The former Notre Dame Training College Chapel, with a practising school on the ground floor, on Victoria Crescent Road in the West End of Glasgow.
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Westdel (left) and Royston (right) in the Dowanhill area of Glasgow. Designed by George Washington Browne, this pair of villas was built in 1889.
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I don't know the exact internal layout of these tenements, but I presume the two columns of bay windows belong to different closes (the one on the right to the close shown in the photo and the one on the left to the neighbouring one).
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Some rather beautiful red sandstone tenements on Beaumont Gate in the West End of Glasgow. Built in 1902, this block was designed by David Barclay, in collaboration with G.S. Kenneth.
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The curving Classical facade of Crown Circus on the West End of Glasgow. Designed by James Thompson, it was built in 1858.
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At one time, Westdel had a bedroom designed by Charles Rennie MacKintosh, but this is now in the University's collections.
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Westdel on Queen's Place in the Hyndland area of Glasgow. Designed by George Washington Browne, it was built in 1890 for Robert MacLehose, who ran the Glasgow University Press and whose initials are inscirbed on its date plaque.
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Fern Tower on Dundonald Road in the Dowanhill area of Glasgow. This Italianate style villa was built in 1874 for the iron merchant and steamship owner John E. Swan.
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A beautiful curving terrace of blonde sandstone 1870s townhouses in on Westbourne Gardens in the West End of Glasgow.
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Elstow on Victoria Circus in the Dowanhill area of Glasgow. Built in the mid-19th Century, it was later remodelled and enlarged in a Scots Baronial style by A.N. Paterson in 1899.
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Love this double villa on Lorraine Road in the West End of Glasgow. It was designed by David Barclay and was built in 1899.
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It was made in 1903 by the MacFarlane and Co foundry in Possilpark, one of Scotland's most important manufacturer of ornamental iron work between 1850 and 1965.
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A wonderful lion pillaster on the combined drinking fountain and lamp in Dowanhill Park in the west end of Glasgow.
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A small corner turret on a Victorian blonde sandstone house.
A rather wonderful Corbelled Tourelle (a small circular turret with a conical roof) on the corner of an 1870s/1880s Victorian Townhouse in the West End of Glasgow.
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He went on to design a number of other impressive buildings including Partick Burgh Halls, Dumbarton Burgh Halls, the Templeton Carpet Factory at Glasgow Green and the Banqueting Hall of Glasgow City Chambers.
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The former Dowanhill Church on Hyndland Street in Glasgow. Designed in a Normandy Gothic style and built in 1865, it was the first major commission for the architect William Leiper.
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Built in the 1870s, its first occupant is listed as being Hugh Baird Junior of Hugh Baird and Sons, Maltsters and Hop Merchants.
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A large, and interestingly shaped, double villa in the Dowanhill area of Glasgow. The brattishing (decorative ironwork on the top of the roof) is a particularly nice feature.
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#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #dowanhill
Some rather gorgeous red sandstone townhouses on Kensington Gate in the West End of Glasgow. They were designed by David Barclay and were built in 1902.
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