Northbank House, 5 Kensington Road, Glasgow

Mid 19th century. 2-storey villa with attics; lower, 2-storey

addition to E doubling size, 1893, Alexander Skirving

architect. Scottish Jacobean features. Stugged ashlar

coursers with polished dressings, bull-faced low plinth over

slope at N. N elevation (windows mostly mullioned with

hood-moulds): left (1893) range recessed, with crenellated

porch projecting from re-entrant angle; conical-roofed,

round, angle turret at left (mullioned and transomed windows)

rising above eaves. Porch has pointed doorway with moulded

reveals, hood-mould and fanlight; perron with arcaded

balustraded, bull-faced piers and retaining wall; 2

wrought-iron lamps. Range to right has ground floor

tripartite, gabled dormerhead with dummy gun loop over window

above; right bay slightly advanced, 2-storey canted window

below pointed attic light, gable with kneelers.

String at 1st floor cill level. Mostly apex stacks. Slate

roofs. 2-storey canted window on W elevation, and

gambrel-roofed single storey wash house at SE both by

Skirving.

Interior: front ground floor rooms and hall have decorative

plasterwork cornices and ribbed ceilings; carved wooden

chimney pieces in hall and dining room. Fitted, low,

bookshelf cabinets in library incorporating chimneypiece.

Stair has unusual wood-framed balustrade. Modern steel fire

escape from attic to 1st floor. Leaded glass stair and porch

windows.

2 pairs of chamfered, square, gatepiers with shaped pyramidal

caps linked by low retaining wall; all ashlar. Decorative

wrought-iron gates.