1 Dundonald Road, Glasgow

Dated 1874. Picturesque Italianate villa 2 storeys and

basement with attic tower feature at SE corner. Droved ashlar

with polished margins and dressings, rusticated basement.

All ground floor windows with recessed margins. Doorway and

most 1st floor windows round headed and flanked by strip

pilasters.

Irregular S elevation with boldly advanced gabled centre bay

of polished ashlar with plain 1/4 columns inset at angles,

continuous band course over ground, to 1st floor cills and

lintels. To 1st, 2 tall arched windows with blind oculus to

spandrel, consoled ashlar balcony.

To left, steps oversailing basement to tripartite arched

doorway with glazed sidelights, carved foliate spandrels,

moulded archivolt with bold keystone. Double-leaf panelled

door, vestibule door with glazed fanlight. Arched window to

1st. Attic tower with tripartites to each face, deeply

overhanging timber bracketted eaves, piended roof.

To extreme right bay, corniced tripartite at ground,

bipartite above.

Sash windows, plate glass glazing. Deeply overhanging

modillion eaves, decorative barge boarding at gable ends,

slate roofs.

Irregular 3-bay flank to S; gabled with 2-storey canted

window splayed above 1st. Band courses continuous with those

of main facade.

Rear elevation stugged coursed ashlar, corniced wallhead

stacks.

Whole surrounded by low coped ashlar wall; supporting modern

cast-iron railings tall square coped ashlar gatepiers. Solid

ashlar parapet to steps with squat end piers.