Greenview School, 47 Greenhead Street, Glasgow

Charles Wilson, 1846; converted to school 1859; single storey dining room wing of 1873 subsequently raised to flat-roofed 2nd storey; later additions (see Notes) include workshops, drill hall and janitor's house of 1904-05 by MacWhannell and Rogerson, and interior remodelling of 1913-14 by Ninian MacWhannell; residential conversion 2006. 3-storey, 6-bay Italian palazzo-style house with square-columned centre porch, balconied 1st floor and sculptured entablature. Single storey wing with large tripartite window giving way to carved broken pediment and sculptured figure of seated scholar. Channelled ashlar and stucco to principal elevation, ashlar to sides and rear with ashlar dressings. Base course, ground floor cill course, 1st floor consoled balconies incorporated into ground floor cornice, 2nd floor cill course and eaves cornice. Segmental-arched and oculus windows; architraves, keystone, stone mullions.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: principal elevation to W (Greenhead Street) with steps up to porch and centre door, windows in flanking bays. 1st floor arcade of tall round-ached windows fronted by decorative balconies, centre balcony steps out over porch and incorporates 2 windows, remaining balconies individual. Set back 2nd floor (in manner of attic floor) with regular fenestration breaking into decorative frieze below dogtooth cornice, and stepped centre with flanking dies. Later wing at outer left (incorporated into ground floor channelled ashlar detail) with tripartite window, heavy flanking pilasters under carved dies with swagged urns, deeply carved windowhead with elaborate stylised shell motif, flanking paired consoles supporting semicircular pediment, single keystoned glazed oculus to simple face of later 2nd storey set-back behind. Large centre stair window at rear.

Margined, horizontal, 4-pane glazing pattern to principal elevation windows except tripartite with plate glass, largely 12-pane glazing pattern elsewhere in early ranges, all in timber sash and case windows. Slated, piend-and-platform roof with paired, corniced ashlar wallhead stacks.

GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: polygonal corniced ashlar gatepiers and low coped boundary walls with inset richly decorated ironwork railings.