Mosesfield House, Belmont Road, Glasgow

"David Hamilton architect 1838" inscribed over door.

2-storey modest-scale country house now incorporated

within city. Sub-divided: club at ground floor, domestic

flat above. In the individual castellated gothic style

developed by Hamilton, sash windows with horizontal

glazing, pointed windows also have simple tracery;

prominent cornice moulding continued along skews and

stepped over gables, kneelers and dormer heads; apex

finials, prominent stacks with grouped square flues. Low

courtyard block at E. Mainly ashlar, lesser elevations

coursed rubble; slate roofs. S (entrance) elevation has

advanced gable right with painted hood-moulded entrance

to groin-vaulted recessed open porch, entrance door

within; stone-balconied and hood-moulded window above

entrance; crenellated canted ground floor window left and

2 1st floor windows. W elevation repeats detailing but

advanced gable at right is castellated; octagonal angle

shafts all carried upwards and corbelled out as thin,

residual bartizans. Modern lavatory outshot on N wall.

Courtyard block now (1988) serves as Parks Department

store; 2 single storey ranges, in L-plan, N range linked

to house, E range with loft contained below eaves and

with coach-house; courtyard closed to S by high screen

wall with blind tall loops flanking moulded large

carriage arch with cornice moulding stepped over, gable

of E range set forward at right.

Interior of house retains much original ornament

including decorative cornice plasterwork and marble

chimney pieces; vestibule walls have 2 inset painted

scenes and 2 classically-robed busts.