6 Park Gardens, Glasgow

2 Park Gardens Lane in Glasgow is an astylar Italianate terrace designed by architect Charles Wilson around 1855. This terrace consists of six houses, each featuring a two-bay elevation with full-height bay windows connected by cast-iron balconies. The buildings rise three storeys, with an attic and basement, and are constructed of polished ashlar that is channelled at the ground level, mostly painted or cleaned of stone.

The entrance features wide flights of steps with pierced and scrolled stone parapets that extend over the basement, leading to tripartite doorpieces. All ground floor openings are tripartite with pilastered reveals and mullions, while the ground floor bay windows are square and the upper floors feature canted bay windows. Other windows are architraved, with consoled and corniced designs on the first floor. The sash windows have either plate-glass or four-pane glazing. Band courses run over the ground and second floors, and there is an eaves cornice along with a plain parapet that has sculpted shell decoration over the bay windows, while the roof features a balustrade. The building has axial stacks and slate roofs, with cast-iron railings surrounding the basement area.

The east flank has seven bays, while the west flank has five bays, both with the centre three bays slightly advanced and topped with a roof balustrade. The deep plain parapet on the east side includes incised decoration. The rear elevation showcases full-height projecting square bays.

Inside, the interiors boast elaborate cornice plasterwork and Corinthian screens on the ground floor. There are well-crafted cast-iron balusters with carved wood newel posts. The upper door panels of No. 1, dating from around 1900, feature wrought-iron designs, with a curved inner door and fanlight.

The mews range along Park Gardens Lane serves as a retaining wall made of droved ashlar, featuring vehicle openings at ground level, loft windows on the first floor, and a dwarf gallery above. The corniced stacks are treated as piers, and some have slit ventilators. Nos. 1 and 2 (with rear No. 2 Park Gardens) were designed by architect John J Burnet in 1906, providing stables with servant accommodation above. The ground floor has modern window alterations, and the polished ashlar features large lugged architrave frames at the ground and first floors, with a deeply recessed opening at ground level, a balcony above, and a roll-moulded surround. The balcony is adorned with a cast-iron bombe section balustrade featuring a grotesque-headed handrail, and there is a balustraded roof parapet linking the wallhead stacks.