8 Newton Place, Glasgow

1 Newton Place in Glasgow is a long terrace building designed by architect George Smith in 1837. It features three bays per house and consists of two storeys, attics, and a basement, with a shallow advanced six-bay, three-storey centre and terminal pavilions. The exterior is made of painted ashlar, channelled at the ground level, with bold voussoirs above the ground floor windows. Steps lead down to tall doorpieces with cornices, which are paired at the pavilions and have ramped architraves and fanlights.

All upper windows are architraved, with ramped and lugged details on the first floor, and corniced and aproned features at the first floor pavilions. The windows are sash style with plate-glass glazing, and some pavilions have 4-pane glazing. Each first floor window has an individual cast-iron balcony, while the pavilions have full-width balconies supported on cast-iron brackets, although the balconies at Nos 1 and 27 have been removed. A continuous band-course runs over the ground floor, topped by an eaves cornice and a deep plain parapet, with a blocking course at the pavilions. The building has axial stacks with octagonal flues below the roof ridge, plain above, and is covered with slate roofs.

The property includes cast-iron railings to the basement and steps, as well as cast-iron lamp standards. The flank facing Elderslie Street (No 1) has four bays, while the flank facing Woodside Crescent (No 27) has five bays detailed as pavilions but with consoled cornices above the first floor windows. The rear elevation features full-height projecting square bays near the west end. Nos 4 and 13 have lost their architraves, and Nos 24 and 25 have modern doors and railings. No 27 includes a curved single-storey smoking room addition to the rear, built around 1903 by H E Clifford, featuring painted ashlar walling with evenly spaced pilasters, an eaves cornice, and a roof balustrade with die pedestals.

The building is located on the south side of the carriageway bordering Sauchiehall Street, with a low ashlar boundary and retaining wall that includes terminal ashlar gatepiers.