Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 564458
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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482-492 Dumbarton Road, former Downie Place, c.1860
White ashlar tenement over ground-floor shops. Encrusted with window cornice details. Named after the Downie sisters, wives of retailers Wylie & Lochhead, the developers, and perhaps by William Lochhead who was architect as well as cabinetmaker.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk