2 Devonshire Terrace, Glasgow

28 Devonshire Terrace Lane in Glasgow is a classically detailed terrace of nine houses designed by architect James Thomson around 1883. The terrace was never completed, resulting in a truncated western end. The building features polished ashlar stone, which has been partly cleaned, and consists of two storeys with attics and a basement, along with three-storey terminal pavilions for each two-bay house.

Wide flights of steps lead up to an Ionic distyle porch with columns set in antis. The entrance includes a tripartite doorpiece with glazed sidelights and recessed double-leaf panelled doors. To the left of the door, there is a two-storey canted window that rises from the basement. All other windows are architraved, consoled, and pedimented at the first floor, featuring sash windows with plate glass glazing.

The three-storey pavilions, two bays per house, mirror the design of the main structure with a canted window on the left and a doorpiece on the right. The second-floor windows are set in moulded architraves, with tripartite windows above the canted windows. Continuous string courses run along all the cills, and there is a mutule main cornice that is bracketed at the pavilions. The deep parapet is interrupted by aedicular pedimented dormers, which alternate between single and three-light designs. The building has corniced axial stacks, mostly with octagonal flues, and slate roofs.

The basement is enclosed by cast-iron railings, and there is a solid scrolled ashlar parapet at the steps. The east flank of the building is similarly detailed, while the rear is constructed of droved ashlar. A coped rubble boundary wall borders Devonshire Terrace Lane. Additionally, there are mews cottages at Nos 18, 28, and 32 Devonshire Terrace Lane, built of stugged painted ashlar with carriage entrances that have been converted into windows, and featuring axial corniced stacks.