56 Cleveden Drive, Glasgow

John Gordon, architect; circa 1887. Symmetrical villa; 2

storeys, attic and basements. Polished ashlar with

vermiculated rusticated quoins to ground floor; Corinthian

pilasters clasping 1st floor angles.

N facade with taller centre bay rising to attic storey.

Full-height 4-light canted windows, flank bipartites; all

architraved, mullioned and transomed. Plate glass sashes.

Continuous moulded band course over basement, ground and at 1st

floor cills and lintels. Bracketted eaves, slate roofs, box

dormers; some roof brattishing.

Polished ashlar flanks with transomed sashes. To W, steps

to single storey pilastered porch with dentil cornice and

deep plain parapet. Architraved double-leaf outer door;

vestibule door with glazed and leaded panels. Tripartite W

window with figurative leaded glass. Rear elevation with

rock-faced basement, detailed as N elevation except that bay

windows flank tripartites.

INTERIOR: generally much altered, some plaster cornices remain,

good gilded timber-lined ceiling to drawing room. Good stained

glass to porch and cupola to attic billiard room.