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Glasgow, 25a Mansionhouse Road, The Double Villa

Villa (19th Century)

Site Name Glasgow, 25a Mansionhouse Road, The Double Villa

Classification Villa (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Maria Villa

Canmore ID 259351

Site Number NS56SE 2037

NGR NS 57587 61485

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Glasgow, City Of
  • Parish Cathcart (City Of Glasgow)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District City Of Glasgow
  • Former County Lanarkshire

Architecture Notes

NS56SE 2037 57587 61485

For 25 Mansionhouse Road, the NE half of the Double Villa, see NS56SE 125

ARCHITECT: Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, 1856-7.

Built for Henry Watson, clothier. Appears to be a single Picturesque Grecian villa, but is in fact two houses of identical plan, with one rotated through 180 degrees, creating two pairs of identical asymmetrical elevations. Walls of honey-coloured Giffnock sandstone. Decoration mainly limited to capitals at dining room and drawing room windows. Plaster ceiling in drawing room decorated with Greek motifs.

R McFadzean, 1979; G Stamp, 1999

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