26 Kingsborough Gardens, Glasgow

A terrace of nine two-bay houses built between 1878 and 1882. All are three-storey with attic and basement, built in polished ashlar. Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed the interiors for 14 (now no.34) Kingsborough Gardens for the owner, Robert Rowat, in 1901.

Nos. 22-36 with stops oversailing basement to a stilted arch keystoned doorway with hoodmoulds ending in square stops, a glazed fanlight and a panelled outer door. To the left, a canted window rises from basement to 1st floor. Remaining windows single or bipartite, in margins at 2nd floor. Plate glass sash windows. Individual cast iron balconies to 1st floor window over entrance door. Band course over ground and 1st floors. Moulded string course at eaves, modillion cornice. Slate roofs with corniced axial stacks and octagonal cans.

No.38 is three-bays with shallow advanced steps to the doorway as above with a two-storey canted window to the right with four single-light 2nd floor windows. At the south angle there is a corbelled tourelle to the 2nd floor with a conical roof. All windows have multi-pane glazing. No.38 has a droved ashlar flank with polished band courses and a two-storey projecting bay window with a conservatory to 1st floor.

Cast iron railings to steps and a basement level throughout the terrace.