Lenzie is “a suburb of Glasgow although separated from that city by open country” ( Pevsner) which developed after a station was opened in 1842 ( this the station of 1900). The Victoria Road and Alexandra Road area has many fine villas in the style of Alexander Thomson. A thread. 
Warwick Croft c 1875 is “the only villa in Lenzie which, despite alterations, looks as if it might be authentic Thomson” ( Gavin Stamp, “Alexander’Greek’ Thomson”) @AThomsonSociety /
Another view of Craigard. If not by Thomson this must be one of Robert Turnbull’s best in Thomson’s manner, or based on an earlier plan./
Craigard is actually a “double villa” with Warwick Croft, asymmetrical and very characteristic /
Schinkelesque I’d say /
Across the road another double villa this time by Robert Turnbull in 1875. Turnbull lived in the house on the left hand side between 1875 and 1886. /
Also by Turnbull /
A pair of villas of the 1870s, versions of Thomson’s much earlier published design for Seymour Lodge at Cove and probably by Turnbull. /
Gavin Stamp thought this villa, “Arden”, may be a Thomson design reworked by Turnbull in 1881. /
Another view of “Arden” (1881) It reminds me a bit of Thomson’s very late “Croyland” in Newton Mearns.
“Wackily detailed Aegypto-Greek gate piers of Greek Thomson inspiration” ( Pevsner) at a late Victorian villa of Georgian appearance in Victoria Road/
Walls also of Thomsonian inspiration/
Glenbank Terrace of 1870. One of the house’s title deeds refers to “Alexander Thomson architect Glasgow” but Stamp is doubtful as the “weak design exhibits none of the control and interest in dynamic repetition” of Thomson’s earlier work. Not unattractive however. /
Another view of Glenbank Terrace/
“Invershiel” of 1880. “Symmetrical two storey Thomsonian villa, almost certainly by Turnbull “ says Stamp although it can be related to such Thomson villas as “Ellisland” in Pollokshields. There is a very similar villla in Kelvinside. /
Gate piers at “Invershiel” in a Thomsonian manner/
Another view of “Invershiel”. End.
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