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15 Woodlands Terrace, Glasgow

A Category B Listed Building in Hillhead, Glasgow

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8684 / 55°52'6"N

Longitude: -4.2786 / 4°16'42"W

OS Eastings: 257514

OS Northings: 666256

OS Grid: NS575662

Mapcode National: GBR 0FJ.R3

Mapcode Global: WH3P2.7RTM

Plus Code: 9C7QVP9C+8H

Entry Name: 15 Woodlands Terrace, Glasgow

Listing Name: 1-17 (Inclusive Nos) Woodlands Terrace

Listing Date: 15 December 1970

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 374072

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB32266

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200374072

Location: Glasgow

County: Glasgow

Town: Glasgow

Electoral Ward: Hillhead

Traditional County: Lanarkshire

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Description

John Baird I, architect; 1849-51. Classical symmetrical terrace of 3-bay houses; 3-storey with attics and basement. Ashlar, mostly painted or stonecleaned, channelled at ground, stugged at basement. Channelled flat voussoirs over all ground floor openings. Paired flights of steps oversailing basement to tall depressed arch doorpieces with deeply recessed doors. Full-height canted bay-windows, intermittently with pilastered mullions. Ground floor windows mostly

tripartite; 1st floor windows with ramped and lugged architraves; 2nd floor windows with recessed margins.

Sash windows, mostly plate-glass glazing. Continuous band courses between floors at cill level on 1st floor. Main cornice, blocking course. Axial stacks, slate roofs. Good cast-iron railings with winged figures to basement area and steps. Decorative cast-iron balconies to 1st floor supported on stone consoles and cast-iron brackets, mostly now removed. Flank to Lynedoch Place; 3-bay elevation; recessed inner bay, canted full-height window with heavy mutule cornice and plain parapet.

Flank to Park Street South: advanced 3-bay central block; 1st floor windows consoled; ground floor canted bay windows. No 1 broadly similar to main terrace, but with corniced shallow doorpiece and single ground floor windows. No 3 doorpiece with engaged column reveals. Nos 13 and 14 altered and extended by James Salmon Jnr c. 1900; No 14 with 1st floor painted tile fireplace with marble surround and much Salmon woodwork.

Billiard room to rear and basement library (now restaurant) with Salmon interior and coloured leaded glass. Otherwise, interiors with good ceiling and cornice plasterwork, good cast-iron stair balusters.

Statement of Interest

Part of Woodlands Hill A Group.

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