162 Finnart Street

This is a 2-storey and attic, 6-bay house dating from 1880, designed by the Glasgow architect John Honeyman. It is built around a small central courtyard and includes an attached, 2-storey, L-shaped former stable block, coach house, and garage to the southwest. The property has been divided into seven separate residential units. The building features two distinctive 3-stage towers with pyramidal roofs; one is located at the far west of the coach house, and the other is incorporated into the north wing of the house.

The building is constructed of ashlar sandstone, with channelled textures at ground floor level, channelled corner quoins, a base course, band courses, and a cornice. The main south-facing elevation has steps, flanked by metal lions on pedestals, leading to a 2-leaf timber entrance door set within a round-arched doorpiece. Round and square Ionic columns support a balustrade, which extends over a tripartite window to the left. An advanced 2-bay section sits to the right (west), and a dormer with a round-arched pediment and flanking balustrades is located to the east. The west elevation includes some canted bay windows.

The windows are primarily plate glass timber sash and case, although some non-traditional windows are found at the rear and within the former stable block. The roofs are piended and covered in grey slates, with metal finials at the apices. Numerous corniced and decorative chimney stacks are present.

The interior of the main house was inspected in 2016. Although the room layout has been altered due to the division of the property into residences, several public rooms remain intact, along with high-quality 19th-century decorative features. Sections around the former main staircase retain timber panelling to picture rail height, and parts of the original staircase with its timber balusters remain. There is intricate decorative plasterwork in some public rooms, carved chimney pieces, and dado-height timber panelling in other rooms. Many doors are part-glazed, while others are 6-panelled timber doors. One room features a pair of glazed, columned, round-arched features overlooking the internal courtyard; one is a French window, and the other is a canted alcove with window seating. Stained glass panels are present, including those in the internal part-glazed entrance door and the former stairwell.