Royston, 10 Crown Road North, Dowanhill, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 July 1987. Villa.
Royston, 10 Crown Road North, Dowanhill, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- heavy-floor-torch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow West MP: Patricia Ferguson (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1987
- Type
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NS 561 671
- Coordinates
- 55.87642, -4.30011
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Royston, located at 10 Crown Road North in Dowanhill, Glasgow, is a large asymmetrical double villa designed by George Washington Browne between 1889 and 1890. The building stands two storeys high with attics and is constructed from coursed rock-faced ashlar, featuring polished margins and quoins. It has sash windows with roll moulded reveals, which may include plate glass or small pane glazing.
The villa has a two-bay elevation facing Queen's Place. On the left side, there is a two-storey square projecting five-light window that is mullioned and transomed, topped with a plain parapet that breaks the wallhead. To the right, there are single windows.
The elevation towards Crown Road North features a gabled entrance bay at the centre. Steps lead up to a Doric porch, which has columns with exaggerated entasis. The arched doorway displays rusticated Gibbsian detail. Above the porch, there is a two-storey canted oriel window, with each light on the first floor individually corniced and capped with a shell pediment. A tall corniced stack is positioned to the left.
The west elevation, which also faces Queen's Place, mirrors the design of Royston but includes a full-height octagonal turret on the left that rises to a facetted roof with a finial. Steps lead to a central doorway that features a shouldered architrave, corniced with a fanlight and flanked by moulded pilasters. A date stone on the side elevation bears the initials RML and SMML.
There were additions made in 1896 and 1902 by A N Paterson, which included a single storey and attic wing that provides service quarters. The interior boasts good panelling and carved doorpieces, along with a roll moulded fireplace. The timber stair balusters are complemented by a timber screen at the first-floor landing, and there is a top-lit billiard room located at the rear.
Both houses feature bipartite dormers; at Westdel, these are linked by tile-hung infill with an oculus. The building has timber bracketed eaves and swept slate roofs.
Local climate
Royston, 10 Crown Road North, Dowanhill, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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