21 Glasgow Road, Uddingston

21 Glasgow Road, Uddingston

A late 19th-century house with subsequent alterations and additions, built on sloping ground that falls to the west. The building is two storeys tall with two bays. The right-hand bay is slightly advanced and features a two-storey single-bay gabled projection with a three-light canted bay at ground level.

The principal material is pink ashlar sandstone to the front, with stugged and snecked sandstone to the sides and rear, dressed with polished ashlar. The base course, cornice and blocking course to the canted bay are of ashlar. An eyebrow hoodmould runs over the bipartite windows (with columnar mullions and foliate capitals) in the advanced bay, continuing as a string course. Long and short quoins with droved angles articulate the angles. Exposed rafters sit beneath the eaves.

The principal (east) elevation displays a round-arched, roll-moulded door surround containing a deep-set two-leaf timber panelled door, with a small window at first floor above. The gabled bay to the right contains a three-light canted bay at ground and a round-arched bipartite window at first floor, topped by a timber finial. The left-hand bay has a bipartite window at ground and a bipartite pitched window at first floor, also with a timber finial to the gable apex.

The rear (west) elevation is irregular, rising two storeys with basement in the main section (two bays) and a single storey with basement in a single-bay projection to the right (south). A boarded door sits at basement level in the central bay, with a small window above at ground and another at first floor. The outer left bay has a barred basement window, a bipartite ground window and a single first-floor window. The advanced right bay contains a single ground window and a dormer attic window above. Two unevenly spaced basement windows appear in the left return.

The south elevation shows a two-storey gabled bay with a lower single bay to its left, windows set left of centre at each floor in the gabled portion and one window at ground in the lower bay. The north elevation has a single ground window set to the outer right, blank wall to the left, and a wide wallhead stack to the centre above.

Windows comprise two-pane timber sash and case to the front; most side and rear windows are fixed replacements with top casements. The roof is covered in grey slate, with slate also covering a mono-pitched rear addition. Ashlar-coped stacks with octagonal cans sit at the north and south wallheads. A square-plan cast-iron downpipe with decorative fastenings adorns the front, whilst plastic replacement rainwater goods serve the rear.

The interior remains partly unseen (unvisited upstairs as of 1997). The main downstairs rooms retain decorative cornices featuring trailing fruiting vine, floral and acanthus, egg and dart, bead and reel and modillioned cornice in the hall. Picture rails and dado rails survive downstairs. Doors are architraved and timber panelled with deep shouldered friezes and cornices above. A double bracketed lintel marks the stairwell entrance. Some ceiling roses remain, and the stair features a turned timber banister.

An outbuilding to the southwest is a rectangular-plan brick garage with a gable end, part-glazed sliding doors to the centre and a pitched boarded door above. A brick lean-to addition extends from the centre rear with a high-set window and a boarded ground door to the left. Blank gabled side walls are present. The main garage has a grey slate roof and plastic rainwater goods; the lean-to is roofed in corrugated iron.

The boundary comprises two sets of pink sandstone gatepiers of tapered square plan with pyramidal caps, and pink sandstone rubble walls topped with ridged ashlar cope.