15 Cleveden Gardens
There is a mansion at 15 Cleveden Gardens in the Scottish city of Glasgow . In 1970 the building was included in the Scottish monument lists, initially in category B. The upgrade to the highest monument category A took place in 1987.
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The villa was built in 1904 for the shipowner Thomas Prentice . Prentice hired his brother Andrew Noble Prentice to plan the building.
The two-story villa is located on Cleveden Drive in the northwestern Glasgow district of Kelvinside . It is designed in the Edwardian style , a late variant of the Neo-Renaissance . The south-facing front facade is five axes wide. In the center emerges a three-axis risalit with colossal pilasters . Four wide arched windows are let into the ground floor . In the center is the arched entrance portal with small side windows and fighter windows . The round arch is embedded in an elongated recess with gussets in relief. The elongated windows on the upper floor close with bevelled architraves that extend under the expansive wooden cornice . Three windows have balconies with curved, cast iron railings. The villa closes with a hipped roof with skylights. In the center sits an octagonal lantern with a curved hood and weather vane .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Entry to 15 Cleveden Gardens in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 55 ° 53 '5 " N , 4 ° 17' 58.8" W.