7 Kirklee Terrace, Glasgow

This is a group value example of a classical terrace of houses designed by Charles Wilson in 1845. The terrace comprises 40 bays arranged in a pattern of 5-12-6-12-5, and includes 3-storey pavilions at each end and a central section. The construction utilizes polished ashlar, which has been stonecleaned. The ground floor is channelled, while the window margins are rusticated with bold keystones.

Steps project over the basement to Roman Doric, pilastered doorpieces, featuring a mutule cornice and entablature decorated with metopes, tryglyphs, and guttae. Each door has pilastered jambs supporting a heavy, corniced lintel, a narrow fanlight above, and glazed sidelights. Ground floor windows retain roll-moulded architraves, curved at the top corners. Upper floor windows are similarly architraved, with ornate consoles and cornices at the first floor, particularly detailed with an incised frieze at the pavilions. The windows are mainly sash windows with four panes of glazing. A band or string course runs at the ground floor cill level and again at the first floor. First floor windows are each accompanied by individual ashlar balconies with ashlar balustrade rests on stone corbels. The eaves feature a band course and a bracketted cornice. The pavilions have a string course at the second floor cills and an eaves course with an incised panel pattern, also topped with a bracketted cornice. Tall, corniced axial and wallhead stacks are present at the flanks. The roofs are slate. Cast-iron railings extend to the basement and steps, incorporating ashlar gatepiers with die pedestals.

The flanks are recessed and 3-bay wide, with a pilastered enclosed porch projecting from the re-entrant angle, featuring a full Doric entablature, a mutule cornice, and a pierced parapet. The porch contains a door with pilastered reveals and a fanlight. The flanks largely echo the detailing of the main façade. However, at number 14, a square, near full-height, advanced bay with channelled stonework to mid 1st floor incorporates a consoled and corniced window with a bracketted cill, a tripartite window above with string cills and a plain parapet. The rear elevation is of droved ashlar, with windows arranged in a lying-pane pattern. Number 13 has a single-storey rear addition constructed of rendered brick, with a steep-pitched roof and small, leaded lights.

The terrace also incorporates three ranges of mews cottages, constructed of stugged ashlar, mostly painted or stonecleaned. These have been altered, with carriage entrances converted to windows.