6 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow

This is a group of 17 remaining houses from an original terrace of 20, built between 1880 and 1893 in Glasgow. The houses were designed by John Cunningham, Lindsay and Benzie, A G Robertson, David Wylie, and A. Robertson. They are constructed from yellow sandstone ashlar.

Number 1, designed by John Cunningham in 1883, is a three-storey house with a tall basement corner block. The basement is channelled, and the ground floor is droved. It has a four-bay elevation with a wider east bay that is canted on the first floor. An anta-pillared portico with a pierced parapet provides the entrance from Great George Street. The cornices between floors, along with the main dentilled cornice and blocking course, extend into the west two-bay elevations on Lilybank Gardens. A single bay mirrors the canted window.

Houses number 2 to 5, also by John Cunningham (1880), are two-storey houses with attics and basements to numbers 2 and 3. They have two bays and a channelled ground floor. Each house has a door at the head of steps, narrow side lights, a full-height canted bay, and a Mansard roof with dormers.

Numbers 6 to 9 were designed by A G Robertson (1880) and are also two-storey, attic structures with two bays. They feature tall doors with elongated pilasters separating them from the side lights, and single windows above with Thomsonesque dwarf Ionic pilasters within the architraves. These houses also have a full-height canted bay and a Mansard roof with dormers.

Numbers 10 to 13 were designed by Lindsay and Benzie (1881-83). These are two-storey, attic houses with two bays, wide panelled doors, and a full-height canted bay, topped with a Mansard roof and dormers, one of which is arched.

Numbers 16 and 17, designed by David Wylie in 1893, are two-storey, attic houses with a basement. The south elevation has two bays, a double-leaf panelled door, one window on the ground floor, two windows on the first floor; a full-height canted bay to the north. They have a Mansard roof with three dormers, two of which are small and arched.

Interior features, observed in houses 4 to 7, include original room plans, elaborate decorative plasterwork, timber balustraded staircases, timber dado panelling, marble and timber fireplaces, glazed vestibule doors with etched or stained glass, stained glass upper sashes, and timber panelled shutters.

The windows are timber sash and case, fitted with plate glass. The roofs are grey slate Mansard roofs with dormers. Boundary walls with decorative cast-iron railings and entrance steps surround the properties.