Craigmount, 16 Cleveden Road, Glasgow

Craigmount is a large asymmetrical house dating to circa 1883, designed by John Gordon in the Dutch Renaissance style. It is constructed as an L-plan building with two main stories and attics, dominated by a four-story tower set into the re-entrant angle of the front entrance. The exterior is of lightly stugged ashlar, accentuated with polished margins and dressings. Pilasters are a prominent feature, appearing at corners and flanking most windows, while the roofline is elaborate with shaped gables incorporating broken segmental pediments flanked by urns on pedestals. Plate glass sash windows are found throughout. A cornice runs over the ground and first floors, and continuous bands encircle the building, topped with steeply pitched slate roofs.

The elevation facing Cleveden Road is three bays wide, featuring a two-story curved bow window to the left with pilaster mullions rising to a balustraded parapet. Above this is a gable with a single arched attic window. A flight of steps leads to a central, pilastered doorpiece, featuring a round arched fanlight and a moulded architrave at the base of the tower. The tower’s first floor has a pilastered, pedimented window, the second floor a bipartite window with a segmental pediment, and the third floor has grouped arched windows. A bracketed cornice, die balustrade, and urns adorn this elevation. To the right is a two-story square projecting window rising to a small gable.

The south elevation also has two bays, with a two-story, five-light bow window to the left, rising to a balustraded parapet and an arched attic light in the gable above. To the right is a two-story square projecting window topped by a parapet with pedestals and urns.

The north elevation has three bays, with a tall gable to the right and a two-light, square projecting window to the left, topped by a small gable. A canted window is centrally placed with a tripartite window above it. A square bay window is on the right, also with a tripartite window above, and a round arched attic window is set in the gable.

The east elevation is irregular and gabled, constructed of coursed stugged ashlar with gables rising to corniced stacks.

A small, gabled, single-story building, possibly a laundry, is located to the south.

The garden is enclosed by a droved ashlar wall with polished coping, and is accessed via tall, square, painted ashlar gatepiers with elaborately decorated caps.

The interior features a Corinthian column screen to the hall, good cornice plasterwork, a painted frieze depicting rural scenes, and elaborately carved, pedimented door cases with cherub and fruit tympanums. A stained glass window (figurative) is located on the stair.