Following the launch of trove.scot in February 2025 we are now planning the retiral of some of our webservices. Canmore will be switched off on 24th June 2025. Information about the closure can be found on the HES website: Retiral of HES web services | Historic Environment Scotland
Glasgow, Pollokshields, 332 Albert Drive
Villa (19th Century)
Site Name Glasgow, Pollokshields, 332 Albert Drive
Classification Villa (19th Century)
Canmore ID 162899
Site Number NS56SE 493
NGR NS 56988 63598
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/162899
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Govan (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
Albert Drive
No 312, c.1875. Villa with window and other features not unlike nearby 'Green Gables' of 1851, one of four Alexander Thomson villas demolished in the 1960s to make way for the Corporation's deck-access flats at St Andrew's Drive. No 328, 1891. Mannerisms inspired by 'Greek' Thomson. Colonnaded first-floor bow window, with low cast-iron balustraded balcony, now Infant Department, Craigholme School. No 332, c.1880. Symmetrical villa with distinctive moulding and sculptural detail.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
