1-14 Kirklee Terrace
One row of residential buildings is located at 1-14 Kirklee Terrace in the Scottish city of Glasgow . In 1966 it was included as an individual monument in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A. Furthermore, the buildings are part of a more comprehensive category A monument ensemble.
description
Construction of the complex, based on a design by the eminent Scottish architect Charles Wilson , began in 1845. It is set back from the Great Western Road ( A82 ) to the west of the Glasgow Botanical Gardens .
The two-story row of buildings is 40 axes in the arrangement 5–12–6–12–5 wide. The closing groups and the middle section emerge as three-story corner and middle risers . The masonry on the ground floor is heavily rusticated . The rustication on the elongated windows suggests massive keystones . The individual building entrances are accessible via short front stairs. Doric pilasters flank the doors. They have entablature , the friezes of which are decorated with simple triglyphs , metopes and guttae .
The windows on the first floor all have balconies. These rest on ornamented consoles and have stone parapets. Above, ornamented at the projections, Friese verdachen on consoles dormant cornices windows. The facades are finished with a cornice . An ornamented decorative ribbon runs along the risalits under the cornice with a tooth cut . Massive chimneys tower up from the slate roofs.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Information on scottisharchitects.org.uk
Web links
- Entry on 1–14 Kirklee Terrace in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 55 ° 52 ′ 48.7 " N , 4 ° 17 ′ 41.5" W.