Stoneleigh, 48 Cleveden Drive, Kelvinside, Glasgow

Stoneleigh is an asymmetrical Elizabethan-style villa located at 48 Cleveden Drive in Kelvinside, Glasgow, designed by architect H E Clifford and built around 1900-1910. The villa is primarily two storeys with a basement and features a three-storey tower on the west side. It is constructed of stugged ashlar with polished margins and quoins. The windows are mainly bi- or tripartite, with transoms and/or mullions; the southern facade has roll-moulded reveals, while the northern and eastern facades have hollow chamfered reveals.

The northern facade includes a two-storey, three-bay block with a porte-cochere on the left, featuring Ionic pilasters at the corners, a cornice, and an elaborate pierced ashlar balustrade. The entrance has a depressed arch doorpiece with a bold keystone and an Art Nouveau panelled door. To the right, there are two full-height canted bay windows topped with an embattled parapet. The ground floor lights are round-headed with cusp tracery. The right side features a projecting three-storey square tower with a round-headed door and a square hoodmould. Above, there is a shallow canted tripartite oriel window supported by a corbel course on the second floor. The windows are asymmetrically placed, including bipartites or narrow transomed lights with small-pane glazing. A stair turret is located at the re-entrant angle, topped with a corbelled embattled parapet. The balustrade linking the porte-cochere and tower has die pedestals supporting ball finials.

The villa has single-storey wings to the east and west, both with deep basements; the eastern wing features a deep parapet and pinnacles. The southern elevation showcases full-height bay windows with gables flanking a balustraded balcony above a four-light ground floor window. The roof is covered with slate, and there are tall axial and wallhead stacks with plain skews and skewstones.

Inside, the villa boasts an elaborate interior with well-crafted timber or marble chimneypieces, some details reflecting Jacobean style and others in the Glasgow style. There are carved timber balusters and newel posts, a stair window with leaded and stained glass, as well as good panelling, fitted cupboards, doorcases, and light fittings. The garden is enclosed by a low coped ashlar wall featuring two pairs of tall banded ashlar gatepiers.