I love these tenements on Terregles Avenue on the Southside of Glasgow. They're just so elegantly simple, with a hint of Art Nouveau about them. They were designed by H.E. Clifford and were built in 1895.

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A classic example of a red sandstone corner tenement at the junction of Haggs Road and Pollokshaws Road on the southside of Glasgow. It was built in 1901.

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Corner tenement at the junction of Albert Road and Cathcart Road in the Crosshill area of Glasgow.

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Kelvinhaugh tenements just off Argyle Street in the west of Glasgow.

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Part of a decorative tiling panel at the entrance to a ground floor shop in a block of tenements on Queen Margaret Drive in Glasgow.

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So, why are such varied buildings grouped together under a single term? Well, a tenement is really just low-rise building containing multple flats, and a shared entrance.

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Love these Classical details on Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's mid-1870s tenement building on Allison Street in the Govanhill area of Glasgow.

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1860s blonde sandstone tenement on Argyle Street in Finnieston, Glasgow. I like the painted signs on the ground floor shop fronts on this building, especially Pearl the gold leaf shell oyster lady.

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A rather wonderful 1900 red sandstone gushet tenement on the corner of Arcadia Street and Greenhead Street in the East End of Glasgow.

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Traditional sandstone tenements climbing Thornwood Avenue in the west of Glasgow.

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Love this red sandstone tenement on the corner of Osborne Street and Parnie Street in Glasgow.

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I love a quirkily shaped tenement, and Victorian architects with unusual names. So here is one such tenement Queen Margaret Drive in Glasgow which is thought to have been designed by the architect Horatio Kelson Bromhead.

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This is a rather gorgeous red sandstone Glasgow Style tenement the corner of Govan Road and Shaw Street in Glasgow. It was designed by Frank Burnet and Boston, and was built in 1900.

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A fantastically beautiful Art Nouveau Rose tenement tile from a close on Kennyhill Square in the east end of Glasgow.

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All that's left of the original Arlington Place on Woodlands Road in Glasgow. This was once part of a much larger building which extended all the way down Arlington Street on the left to Grant Street.

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The former Govanhill branch of the Glasgow Savings Bank on Cathcart Road in Glasgow. Designed by J.C. McKellar, it was built in 1903.

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A rather gorgeous red sandstone tenement on the corner of Arcadia Street and Greenhead Street in the East End of Glasgow.

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Red sandstone tenements on Holmlea Road in Glasgow.

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Red sandstone corner tenement on Holmlea Road on the Southside of Glasgow. Love the corner bay windows, and the pediment at the top.

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I love the shape of the parapets at the top of these tenement bay windows on Shettleston Road in the east of Glasgow.

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A 1905 tenement on Stockwell Street in Glasgow, designed by A.B. McDonald. I love the central gable, complete with date plate, on this facade.

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A gently curving Victorian corner tenement on Queen Margaret Drive in Glasgow.

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An unusual, but impressive, French Baroque style tenement on Stockwell Street in Glasgow. Built in 1905, it was designed by A.B. McDonald.

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A simple, but none-the-less visually impressive, blonde sandstone tenement building on the gushet between Fergus Drive and Oban Drive in northwest of Glasgow.

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Love the corner tower, topped by a candle-snuffer roof, on this red sandstone tenement on Wilton Street im the northwest of Glasgow.

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Love this rather amazing painted glass window from a tenement close in the Thornwood area of Glasgow today. It's made all the more beautiful by the blue sky in the background.

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Love this rather unusual gushet tenement on the corner of Panmure Street and Firhill Road in the north of Glasgow. The octagonal column of corner oriel windows is particularly eye-catching.

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Red sandstone corner tenement on Copland Road in the Southside of Glasgow.

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Some more wonderful Glasgow Tenement tiles. These are from a close in North Kelvinside.

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A crenellated corner tower on a red sandstone tenement on Main Street in the Bridgeton area of Glasgow

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