Greenview School, 47 Greenhead Street, Glasgow

Greenview School is an Italian palazzo-style house built in 1846 by Charles Wilson, later converted to a school in 1859. In 1873, a single-storey dining room wing was raised to a flat-roofed second storey. Subsequent additions between 1904 and 1905 by MacWhannell and Rogerson include workshops, a drill hall, and a janitor's house, with further interior remodelling occurring between 1913 and 1914, also by Ninian MacWhannell. The building was converted to residential use in 2006.

The main three-storey, six-bay facade is constructed of channelled ashlar and stucco with ashlar dressings to the sides and rear. A square-columned porch is centrally positioned, and the first floor has balconied openings. A sculpted entablature runs along the top of the building. A single-storey wing features a large tripartite window surmounted by a carved broken pediment and a sculpted figure of a seated scholar. The principal elevation, facing Greenhead Street, includes steps leading to the porch and windows in the flanking bays. The first floor has a prominent arcade of tall round-arched windows, fronted by decorative balconies; the central balcony extends over the porch and incorporates two windows, while the remaining balconies are individual. A recessed second floor, giving the impression of an attic floor, is characterised by regular windows set within a decorative frieze below a dogtooth cornice, with a stepped central section flanked by projecting dies. A later wing on the outer left incorporates channelled ashlar detailing. This wing’s tripartite window is framed by heavy pilasters beneath carved dies with swagged urns, a deeply carved windowhead featuring an elaborate shell motif, and flanking consoles supporting a semicircular pediment. A single keystoned glazed oculus is set within a simple face of the later set-back second storey. A large stair window is situated at the rear.

Most windows on the principal elevation have a margined, horizontal pattern of four panes, while the tripartite window uses plate glass; elsewhere, early ranges feature largely 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. The roof is slated with a piend-and-platform design, incorporating paired, corniced ashlar wallhead stacks. The property is enclosed by polygonal corniced ashlar gatepiers, low coped boundary walls, and richly decorated ironwork railings.