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18 Park Terrace, Glasgow

A Category A Listed Building in Hillhead, Glasgow

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8701 / 55°52'12"N

Longitude: -4.2804 / 4°16'49"W

OS Eastings: 257405

OS Northings: 666456

OS Grid: NS574664

Mapcode National: GBR 0FH.CG

Mapcode Global: WH3P2.6QY8

Plus Code: 9C7QVPC9+2R

Entry Name: 18 Park Terrace, Glasgow

Listing Name: 1-21 (Inclusive Nos) Park Terrace and 18-24 (Inclusive Nos) Woodlands Terrace and 2-4 (Even Nos) Park Terrace East Lane and 3 Park Street South

Listing Date: 15 December 1970

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 373959

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB32245

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200373959

Location: Glasgow

County: Glasgow

Town: Glasgow

Electoral Ward: Hillhead

Traditional County: Lanarkshire

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Description

Charles Wilson, architect, 1855. French Renaissance pair of symmetrical curved terraces. 3 storeys and attic over basement; terminal pavilions slightly taller and with individual roofs. Polished ashlar, channelled at ground, painted or stonecleaned. 2-bay elevation per house, each with 2-storey canted bay windows with plain parapet.

Steps oversailing basement to tripartite doorpieces with consoled cornices; continued as 1st floor band course.

All windows architraved; tripartite above bays; 1st floor with lion mask consoles and cornices; 2nd floor pavilion windows also corniced. Sash windows, plate glass or 4-pane glazing. Continuous string courses at 1st and 2nd floor cills; bracketted cornice. Round headed dormers with spike finials; pavilion dormers grouped as pedimented Venetian windows. End and axial stacks; those to Park Street South with incised geometric decoration; steeply pitched slate roofs. Good cast-iron railings to basements and some steps; otherwise step parapet of stone with scroll details.

Interiors: Corinthian column screens: good plasterwork ceilings and cast-iron balusters to stairs. Flanks detailed as pavilions with single storey canted bay window to 1st floor except at No 1 Park Terrace which has square bay window. No 1 Park Terrace single storey

addition to rear (3 Park Street South) billiard room with interior by J A Campbell 1900; painted ashlar, broken pedimented niche above door and square end bay.

Interior: panelled with inglenook fireplace, plaster frieze and stained glass. Elaborately carved doors. No 14 and 19 Park Terrace; doors now tripartite windows.

Flank to 24 Woodlands Terrace: 2-4 Park Terrace East Lane corniced ashlar mews/billiard room.

Statement of Interest

Part of Woodlands Hill A Group.

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