Maria Villa (Double Villa) (Glasgow)
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Maria Villa, Langside
Alexander Thomson's double villa in Mansion House Road, Langside was built in 1857. It features a couple of semi-detached houses with a most unusual layout.
The design follows the standard arrangement of houses placed side by side but the back of each house is placed against the front of the other, so that they not only share identical layouts but also identical elevations to the east and west.
It is perhaps surprising that the most innovative of Thomson's house arrangements never became a fashionable style to be copied. The houses look much grander than other houses of similar size which were built to the conventional pattern.
Alexander Thomson's double villa in Mansion House Road, Langside was built in 1857. It features a couple of semi-detached houses with a most unusual layout.
The design follows the standard arrangement of houses placed side by side but the back of each house is placed against the front of the other, so that they not only share identical layouts but also identical elevations to the east and west.
It is perhaps surprising that the most innovative of Thomson's house arrangements never became a fashionable style to be copied. The houses look much grander than other houses of similar size which were built to the conventional pattern.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 55°49'32"N 4°16'29"W
- Braehead 1.4 km
- Pacific Quay 4 km
- Ruby Street RDA 4.1 km
- Corkerhill 4.3 km
- Eastwood High School 5.4 km
- Craighall Business Park 5.7 km
- St Convals Cemetery 7 km
- Braehead Business Park 8.4 km
- King George V Playing Fields 8.9 km
- Former Renfrew Airport main runway 8.9 km
- Newlands 0.9 km
- Pollokshaws 1.7 km
- Pollok Country Park 2.6 km
- Castlemilk 3.4 km
- Giffnock 3.5 km
- Thornliebank 4 km
- Clarkston 4.6 km
- Newton Mearns 6.3 km
- East Renfrewshire Council 11 km
- South Lanarkshire Council 39 km