4 Queen's Crescent, Glasgow

John Bryce, architect, 1840. Classical curved terrace

bisected by Melrose Street, laid out around D-shaped

garden; 5-bay flank to 106 West Princes Street. 2

storeys with attics and basement; 3-storey, 5-bay

terminal pavilions. Ashlar, droved at basement,

channelled at ground, mostly painted. Steps oversailing

basement to shallow Roman Doric engaged pillar

doorpieces; pavilions have Roman Doric columnar

porches. Recessed tripartite door with pilastered jambs;

sidelights and fanlights. All upper windows architraved

(many chiselled off) those at 1st floor corniced.

1st floor pavilion windows aproned and with bracketted

pediment. Sash windows, mainly plate glass glazing;

some small-pane glazing. Band/string courses between

floors; eaves course; cornice; blocking course (plain

parapet at pavilions) intermittent pierced roof

balustrade, with dormers behind. Axial stacks, plain

flues; slate roofs. Return elevation: 106 West Princes

Street 5-bays, detailed as pavilions. Decorative

cast-iron railings to basement and steps; some modern. No

5 with coloured leaded glass door.

Interior plasterwork good; corniced ceiling work to No

14.