Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 564270
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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1-11 Great Western Terrace, 1869, Alexander Thomson
The most severe and monumental of the Great Western Road terraces is a long terrace of simply detailed houses, generally of two storeys and basement, with two-house three-storey pavilions located one house from each end, visually creating the illusion of the two-storey block penetrating the taller blocks. This was a unique and successful feature adopted to visually reduce the length of the building. Projecting porches incorporate Ionic columns, deep corbelled eaves and delicate cast-iron railings to basement areas. It is built on a raised level platform. The steps and ramps at each end were cleverly adapted by William Holford & Associates when the road became an Expressway. Notable interiors and top-lit galleried stairwells.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
