13 Park Circus Place, Glasgow

Charles Wilson, architect: designed 1855-6 built 1872-3.

2 ranges of astylar terraces stepped down slope. 3 bays

per house; shallow advanced terminal pavilions. 3

storeys, attics and basement. Polished ashlar,

channelled at ground with flat voussoirs over ground

floor openings. Wide flights of steps oversailing

basements to tripartite doorpieces; some with acid-

etched sidelights and door panels. Ground floor window

with ogee moulding; all upper windows architraved.

Corniced at 1st floor (mutule cornice at pavilions and

Nos 2-8) sash windows; plate-glass glazing. Band/string

course at 1st and 2nd floor cills. Modillion cornice;

blocking course; deep plain parapet at pavilions.

Roundheaded dormers. Axial stacks; at No 1 wallhead

stacks flank short roundheaded arcade; at No 8, 2 stacks

flank balustrade; at No 17 stacks flank pair of

elaborately moulded segmental-headed dormers. Good cast-

iron railings to basement and steps.

North range flank to Lynedoch Place (No 17) canted

central bay window to ground and 1st floors with

modillion cornice. South range flank to Lynedoch Place

(No 8) 2-storey canted oriel window corbelled from

ground.

Interiors with good cast-iron balustrades to stairs

(lion and thislte pattern). Corinthian column screens

and elaborate ceiling plasterwork.

Nos 9 and 13 (McBrayne Hall) doors now windows, steps

removed. Nos 7 and 9 billiard room extensions to rear at

Park Circus Lane. No 7: 2 storeys, droved ashlar,

polished ashlar margins. 1st floor pediment with ball

finials, mullioned window, oculus, eaves cornice. No 9

by J A Campbell 1887: 2-storey polished ashlar:

cantilevered canted bay window at 1st floor, small

oculus to left. Ground floor windows chamfered. Both

with cast-iron ventilators and flat roofs with

balustraded parapets.