Northcote, 4 Victoria Circus, Dowanhill, Glasgow

Mid 19th century. Classically detailed villa with unfortunate

modern brick single storey additions enclosing entrance porch

at S elevation, brick and concrete hall to S. 2-storey attics

and basement, stugged ashlar with smooth rusticated quoins.

All ground floor windows architraved with consoled cornice;

1st floor windows round-headed with pilastered reveals, some

bipartite with pilaster mullions. Plate glass glazing.

3-bay S elevation with recessed entrance bay to right single

storey porch with solid ashlar parapet. E elevation with

full-height canted window to right with engaged column

mullions, corniced single window to left; tripartite window

to 1st. N elevation; 3-bay with single and bipartite windows.

W elevation with tall round-arched stair light; projecting

single-storey service wing.

Band course at 1st floor cills and eaves. Ashlar bracketted

eaves with antefixae. Timber tunnel dormers, corniced

wallhead and axial stacks, slate roofs.

Interior much altered with good cast-iron stair balusters.

Ashlar wall and gateway to kitchen court. Low coped ashlar

boundary wall with pair of tall square ashlar gatepiers.