Lone Survivor: It always seems rather sad to come across an orphaned tenement which has been left standing when all its neighbours have been demolished. Often, as is the case for this one on Keppochhill Road in Glasgow, the survivors have a pub on their ground floor and this was what saved it as it was deemed too expensive to buy out the licence for such premises.
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This collection of rather weird and wonderful sculpted heads are carved onto the corbels of decorative arches over the entrances to a series of tenement closes on Killearn Street in the Possilpark area of Glasgow. As far as I know they're unique and I've not come across any simlar ones on other tenements elsewhere in the city (yet!).
1870s blonde sandstone Classical style tenement on the corner of Radnor Street and Argyle Street in the Kelvingrove area of Glasgow looking rather gorgeous in this morning's spring sunshine.
Love this red sandstone tenement on the corner of Kildrostan Street and Terregles Avenue, especially the tradional ground floor commercial space.
Ghost tenement on Tollcross Road in Glasgow. In the 1960s, 70s and 80s, this was a common sight as tens of thousands of tenements were demolished across the city, and in many cases the wall around the fireplaces left hanging on the air was still decorated with wallpaper, creating a colourful, if rather discombobulating, spectacle.
1870s blonde sandstone tenement on the corner of Argyle Street and Blackie Street in Glasgow. I love the very narrow recessed curve on the corner itself.
1850s Classical style tenement on Argyle Street in the Finnieston area of Glasgow. It's thought to hace been designed by Alexander Kirkland.
A rather distinctive Glasgow tenement on Langside Road on the Southside of the city. Designed by W.M Whyte in a French Renaissance style with a statue of Liberty on the top, it was built in 1885.
Love the two different ancient Greek style friezes above and below this tenement bay window in the North Kelvinside area of Glasgow. The lower one features anthenion or stylised palm fronds, while the upper one features a repeated geometric design.
Love the two different ancient Greek style friezes above and below this tenement bay window in the North Kelvinside area of Glasgow. The lower one features anthenion or stylised palm fronds, while the upper one features a repeated geometric design.
Love the shape of the chimneys, the top corner window and the cupola on this tenement at the junction between Dumbarton Road and Burnham Road in the west of Glasgow.
I love the intertwined numbers you get on date plaques of late Victoria and Edwardian buildings in Glasgow. I particularly like the way the zero hangs off the nine on this one from a tenement on Bridgegate.
Looking up at a Glasgow style gushet tenement on the corner of Stockwell Street and Bridgegate in the city centre. Designed by A.B. MacDonald, it was built in 1905 by the Office of Public Works.
Craignestock Mansions on London Road in the East End of Glasgow. It's not really a mansion as such, but rather a slightly more upmarket tenenent building, with a pub (now the Calton Bar) occupying the corner site on the ground floor and a drying green on its roof.
I love coming across a threshold mosaic in an old Glasgow building. This one is particularly pretty. It's at the entrance to a ground floor shop in the Bell o' the Brae tenements on the corner of Duke Street and High Street.
Love this tenement tile I came across today in a close in the Garscadden area of Glasgow. It's not one I've come across before.
A gushet tenement at the junction between Dumbarton Road and Burnham Road in the west of Glasgow looking rather gorgeous in this morning's low winter sun.
Love the tree's shadow projected onto this red sandstone tenement on Dumbarton Road in Glasgow. The trunk lines up perfectly with the close door, while the branches spread out across the building's facade as if connecting every room to its entrance, just like the communal stairway within.
Repairing storm-damaged roofs and chimneys on Glasgow's traditional tenements requires some serious cranage!
A blonde sandstone tenement on Millbrae Crescent in the south of Glasgow featuring some rather wonderful curving corner windows topped by a stone parapet.
