Carnbooth House, Glasgow

Alexander Cullen Dated 1900. Country house; arts and

crafts movement, with Scots 17th century revival

detailing - 2 storeys, and essentially 2 ranges in a T-

plan. White-harled with contrasting red ashlar

dressings, broad-eaved red-tile roofs, crow-stepped

gables. Single and mullioned windows, some ground floor

windows canted, these also with distinctive projecting

transomes; 1st floor glazing mainly multi-paned.

Main entrance on E front in gabled range, near-centre

porch continued to left as balustraded projecting

window; round-arched, roll-moulded and key-blocked

renaissance-style doorway (2 leaf doors), recessed lower

service range to right, its roof swept down to single

storey to service court and with green copper

conical-roofed angle turret; advanced bay left treated

like dummy tower house, parapet enclosing gable head;

projecting chimney breast, rooms at both levels with

ingle-neuks within. S (garden) elevation has advanced

outer gables, the left gable with bartizans, 2-storey

curved window to right, bay corbelled to square above

ground. Corniced end and axial stacks. Modern extension

to W.

INTERIOR: entrance hall contains large red ashlar

chimney piece, timber stair on axis of ranges with

ornamented newel posts, arcade above now glazed in; some

art nouveau detail. Some rooms now sub-divided, several

with modest ornament; rooms with ingle-neuks both have

elaborate cornice plasterwork.