5 Redlands Road, Kelvinside, Glasgow

5 Redlands Road in Kelvinside, Glasgow, is a two-storey and basement house designed by architect John Smellie in 1909. The building is part of a terrace of three houses, arranged in a symmetrical pattern of 7 bays with a 2-2-3 configuration. It features an unusual reversal of masonry hierarchy, with a polished ground floor that has banding at the cill and lintel levels, contrasted with rock-faced masonry on the first floor's inner bays.

Nos 5 and 7 form a symmetrical pair, each with two-storey canted windows in the outer bays. The deep plain parapets break through the eaves, leading to round arched doorways that have rock-faced lintels with keystones and glazed fanlights above. The outer doors are panelled, while the vestibule doors are tripartite with leaded glass panels and sidelights. Between the doors, there is an arched roll-moulded recess with two small lights. On the first floor, corbels support an ashlar balcony with a bombe section cast-iron balustrade adorned with festoons. Above the doors, single light windows have raised margins. The house features sash windows with plate glass lower sashes and small pane upper sashes. Additional details include an eaves band, swept bracketed eaves, and plain skews, along with corniced axial stacks.

No 9 is a three-bay house that shares similar architectural details, including canted windows in the outer bays. It has steps leading to a central square-headed roll-moulded doorway with a lintel similar to that of Nos 5 and 7. All other details are consistent with those of Nos 5 and 7.

The flank of No 5 is finished in polished ashlar with rock-faced banding, while the rear elevations also feature polished ashlar with extensive projecting wings. No 5 includes two canted oriels supported on brackets on the first floor. The windows at the rear are either single or bipartite, with some canted windows. Low rock-faced ashlar walls with polished coping enclose the gardens, with the wall at No 5 supporting cast-iron railings.