8 Prince's Gardens, Glasgow

4 Prince's Gardens in Glasgow is a terraced crescent built around 1891-1893 on a sloping site. The building has two storeys, an attic, and a basement, with bays arranged in a pattern of 4-12-6-10-4. It features two-bay houses with a six-bay central pavilion and four-bay terminal pavilions that rise to three storeys. The exterior is made of polished red sandstone, with the basement finished in stugged stone.

The main terrace steps extend over the basement, leading to wide double-leaf panelled doors topped with a glazed fanlight. Above the door is a single-light window. A full-height five-light bow window rises from the basement, corniced over the ground floor, and is topped by a three-light bowed dormer. The windows are either sash or casement, with the upper panes often featuring leaded or coloured glass. There is a band course at the first-floor cills, and the eaves are widely overhanging with wooden brackets. The dormers have red tile ridges and finials, and there are corniced axial stacks with octagonal cans. The building also features bowed and piended dormers with overhanging eaves and skews at the party wall.

The central pavilion, which includes Nos 8 and 9, is six bays and three storeys high. The terminal bays have full-height bow windows, and the doorpieces are detailed similarly to those on the main terrace. All windows in this section are single-light, with string courses at the first and second-floor cills and a bracketed cornice. The four-bay terminal pavilions have a full-height bow window in the end bay and a heavy cornice over the first floor.

The eastern and western flanks are polished ashlar, while the rear elevation is finished in stugged red ashlar, featuring mainly bipartite windows. Each house has a projecting single-storey and basement addition at the rear, covered with slate roofs. The property is complemented by low square ashlar gatepiers and intermediate piers connected by cast-iron railings, along with a low ashlar wall along the carriageway.