20 Athole Gardens, Glasgow

18 Athole Gardens in Glasgow is a terrace of houses built around 1878-80, designed in a style reminiscent of Thomson. The terrace steps up the slope and curves at the west end, with No 20 being a four-bay flank that shows some variation in details.

The houses are three-storey with an attic and basement, featuring two-bay designs. To the right, there are two or three-storey canted bay windows, while the left side has steps that oversail the basement leading to tripartite doorpieces, which vary in style, particularly at Nos 19 and 20, which have four-bay elevations. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar, with some areas cleaned of stone.

All doorpieces are tripartite with glazed sidelights. Nos 1-6 have recessed slender pilasters with reveals that support a lintel, while Nos 7-19 feature Egyptian lotus columns set within a moulded architrave that supports an entablature. Above the doors, there are consoled corniced windows. The second floor has single and tripartite windows with dwarf pilasters that support a lintel, linked by an incised band of Thomsonesque decoration. The windows are sash with plate glass glazing, and there is a continuous band course at the cills of the first and second floors. Nos 1-6 have a plain main cornice, while the others have a mutule cornice. The dormers are aedicular with acroteria finials at Nos 1-3 and 7-19, set in mansard roofs. The houses also feature corniced axial stacks and slate roofs.

The flank at the west end, No 20 Athole Gardens, which houses the Notre Dame Child Guidance Clinic, has a four-bay design. It features a central round-headed tripartite doorpiece flanked by Corinthian pilasters and carved spandrels. Slender recessed pilasters flanking the double leaf doors support a corniced lintel. Above the door, there is a three-light bowed oriel with engaged composite columns. The details on this flank are otherwise consistent with the main facade, and it has corniced wallhead stacks linked by dormers, also with mansard slate roofs.