15 Glasgow Road, Uddingston

This is a house, probably designed by Robert Thomson around 1885, with later changes and additions. It is a single-story building, with two stories to the rear, and built in an asymmetrical style combining Egyptian and Greek architectural details. The house is situated on a sloping site that falls to the west.

The front (east) elevation is constructed from lightly stugged and snecked pink ashlar sandstone, with polished dressings. The sides and rear are faced with stugged pink sandstone. Key features include: a Greek key band on the columnar mullions, anthemion capitals to the wider terminal pilasters of the advanced bay, a frieze with floral bosses and a cornice above the advanced bay (which continues as a plain eaves course to the left and a band course on the south side), exposed rafters beneath the eaves, scroll-ended bargeboards to the pediment, and aprons to the window cills on the bays to the left. The principal (east) elevation presents six bays, grouped as 3-3, with a pedimented three-light bay to the right. A pilaster-flanked door bay is centrally positioned, with a deep-set, two-leaf timber panelled door and a rectangular fanlight above. There is a window in each bay to the left, and a window in each bay to the right of the centre. A blank circular plaque is above the pediment, topped by a timber spike finial. A modern garage door is located in the bay to the outer right.

The rear (west) elevation is irregular, with four bays and includes extensive later additions. An advanced glazed and rendered porch is in the outer left bay, supporting the north end of a glazed and rendered conservatory addition that spans almost the entire rear elevation at first floor level. There’s a ground floor window in the centre and right bays, beneath the conservatory canopy. A boarded door leads to the basement in the outer right bay, with a window above it.

The south (side) elevation is irregular, with three bays grouped as 2-1, falling to the left. A window is set to the left of a single gabled bay to the right, and an oculus window is in the pediment above, with a timber spike finial to the gable apex. Windows are in each bay of the lower two-bay block to the left.

The north (side) elevation features a garage projection with a modern door in the outer left bay. A lower two-bay block is centrally positioned with a window in each bay; a long dormer window is set back above. A window is adjacent to the garage in the bay to the left, while a blank wall fronts a rendered extension in the bay to the right.

Most windows are fixed 2-pane timber windows, with small-pane fixed stained glass fanlights above; replacement windows are present on the sides and rear. The roof is covered with grey slate, with a flat roof to the garage and a glass roof to the conservatory addition. An ashlar coped stack rises from the south gable apex, and the rainwater goods are cast iron, with some uPVC replacements at the rear. The interior was partially inspected in 1997.

Tapered, square-plan ashlar sandstone gatepiers, circular at the top with conical caps, mark the entrance. These are accompanied by low, stugged sandstone walls with a ridged ashlar cope, geometrical cast iron railings, and gates.