52 Charlotte Street:
In the 1780s Robert Adam designed numerous houses sited on Charlotte Street. Number 52 is the last one remaining. The grandest of them was the house (demolished 1954) designed for David Dale on the corner of Charlotte Street and Greendyke Street where the Gillespie Kidd and Coia designed Our Lady and St Francis Secondary school extension now sits. 52 Charlotte Street further up the street is a more modest house than the Dale House, composed of two storeys with an attic, and five window bays across the east (front) elevation, a modest entranceway and a lightly detailed pediment atop of the classical symmetrical front facade. Since 1989 the house has been run as guesthouse comprising of six self-contained flats following the sympathetic restoration by the National Trust for Scotland. Category A listing.
street address: 52 Charlotte Street, Glasgow, G1 5DW
Latitude / Longitude: 55.854405,-4.240706 (sourced using Google Maps)
east front elevation on Charlotte Street
restoration plaques
east elevation
main entrance
ashlar detailing over the main entrance
simple pediment over the three bay central portion of the five bay front facade
view from Charlotte Street with an angled view of the south roughcast elevation
view south down the east elevation
roughcast north elevation
north elevation chimney breast and six chimney pots
rear west elevation with its less strict symmetry
rear winodw with arched top
lower rear window
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