22 Lanark Road, Rosebank

22 Lanark Road, Rosebank

A 2-storey English Tudor terrace of ten bays designed by Alexander Cullen in 1900, with later alterations. The building rises on a raised ground that slopes further upward towards the rear. It is harled with red sandstone dressings and applied timber framing at first-floor level.

The principal northwest elevation presents a near-symmetrical composition of nine bays grouped as 1-1-2-1-2-1-1. Stone flights lead to paired replacement boarded doors with rectangular fanlights at ground floor in the central bay. Above, a wallhead dormer breaks the eaves, positioned to the right. A 2-bay gabled group to the right features windows in each bay at both floors, with a finial crowning the gablehead. Further left, paired boarded doors with a wallhead dormer set to the left are placed in the penultimate right bay, with a window at ground floor in the outer right bay and a gabled window above at first-floor level. A matching 2-bay gabled group stands to the left of centre, containing paired doors with wallhead dormer set to the right in the penultimate left bay. The outer left bay contains a ground-floor window with a gabled window above at first-floor level. A prominent 4-light square angle bay window serves number 28 at the outer left.

The southeast rear elevation is irregularly fenestrated at ground floor, with tripartite windows lighting the main gables at first-floor level. A harled addition extends to the outer right rear.

The southwest side elevation comprises a 2-bay gabled wall, irregularly fenestrated, with a stone flight of steps leading to an architraved replacement boarded door with rectangular fanlight in the bay left of centre, flanked by a window to the left beneath a bracketed tiled canopy. A first-floor window sits above, with a further first-floor window set to the right.

The northeast side elevation is a blank gabled wall.

Detailing includes a base course, moulded cills at ground floor, and bracketed tiled canopies over paired doorways. The eaves are overhanging with exposed rafters. Ground-floor windows are recessed and canted; first-floor windows are of 3-light design. Glazing is predominantly leaded lattice with some uPVC replacements; the rear features predominantly small-pane timber sash-and-case windows.

The roof is covered in red tiles with red clay ridge; red tiles also cover the door canopies. The rear is slated in grey slate. Ridge stacks are evenly disposed, harled and coped with multiple flues, and cast-iron rainwater goods complete the external fabric.

A sandstone rubble boundary wall fronts the property with flat ashlar cope; replacement wrought-iron railings serve number 28.

The interior was not inspected at the time of survey in 1997.

This building is listed as part of a group with 1 and 3 Lanark Road, 21 Lanark Road, and the Popinjay Hotel, which was also designed by Cullen in 1900 and stands directly opposite. Together they establish a definite sense of stylistic unity in the centre of Rosebank through bold massing of Tudor gables. Cullen also worked nearby in Larkhall, where he designed the Church Hall for St Machan's Church with Oriental and Art Nouveau details, marking a marked stylistic contrast to the Tudor vocabulary employed here.