Xaverton House, 231 Nithsdale Road, Glasgow

Style of W F MaGibbon, 1880/90. Large 2-storey and

attic villa with baronial details, windows mostly

mullioned and transomed. Stone-cleaned yellow ashlar,

plate glass glazing; bracketted eaves, big piended slate

roofs. 3-bay (N) front, curved window bay right carried

above eaves with parapet, 3-light attic window and

conical roof; pedimented stone dormers; porch recessed

on left (E) flank and with single blocked column, modern

timber range to E apparently re-uses base of former

conservatory; W flank to Albert Road similarly

detailed; lower rear wing includes lantern (presumably)

above billiard room.

Stone-built boundary wall (painted), renaissance

gatepiers at street corner with pyramidal caps.