Lodges, Botanic Gardens, 703 Great Western Road, Glasgow

A B M McDonald city architect; 1894. Pair of similar lodges

of mock Tudor style flanking entrance to gardens. Single

storey with symmetrical inward-facing elevations and

elevations to Great Western Road. Brick with sandstone bands,

margins and long and short work quoins.

Steps to door with ashlar parapet supporting gabled porch on

Roman Doric columns. Porches flanked by mullioned and

transomed 3-light window and roll-moulded panels containing

Glasgow City crest (S Lodge) or date 1894 (N Lodge).

Elevation to Great Western Road with 5-light transomed and

mullioned canted window. Timber brackets support jettied

gable. Dentil cornice at eaves. All gables half-timbered;

slate roofs; red tile cresting. N elevations with brick

stacks rising from ground.