49 Dowanside Road, Glasgow

49 Dowanside Road in Glasgow is a building designed by architect David Barclay around 1900. It consists of a 13-bay terrace made up of six houses situated on a steeply sloping site. Most of the houses are two bays wide, two stories tall with a basement, except for No. 45, which is three bays wide and three stories tall.

The exterior is finished in polished red sandstone, with the basement featuring stugged stonework. Access to the houses is via steps that oversail the basement, leading to a pilastered doorway. This doorway has double leaf panelled doors topped with a curved ashlar lintel, a fanlight with small pane glazing, and sidelights adorned with decorative heads. Above the door, there is a bipartite window. To the right, No. 45 features a four-light full-height bow window.

The houses have sash windows, with plate glass and small pane glazing in the upper sashes of the first-floor windows. There are continuous band courses over the ground floor at the end houses. The eaves overhang and are supported by timber brackets. The roofs are slate, with tile cresting, corniced axial stacks, and decorative skew-putts at the party walls.

The steps leading to the houses have a solid coped parapet, and there is an ashlar retaining and boundary wall surrounding the garden.

No. 45 stands out as a three-bay, three-story house with full-height bow windows flanking its door. No. 47 features a three-light bow dormer on the right and a bipartite dormer on the left. The flank of the terrace facing Dowanhill Street is a single bay that includes a five-light bow window at ground level and adjoins No. 106 Dowanhill Street. This adjacent building has a similarly detailed asymmetrical two-bay elevation, with modern steps leading to the advanced left bay, which has small leaded lights. The right bay features a bow window at ground level and two single light windows on the first floor. The dormers are set in a slate mansard roof, and the flank is finished in coursed ashlar.