Southpark House, Hillhead
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Southpark House, Hillhead
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 24 Jun 2019
Double villa constructed circa 1850 for William Govan Senior and William Govan Junior, Listed Category B http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB32907 . The listing states: “Southpark House is an unusual example of a double villa design, and a surviving early villa from the original residential development of Hillhead. The double design was developed to provide tow[n] houses for father and son William Govan. . . . The house was the last of the large villas to be built in Hillhead before the more intensive developments of terraces and tenements.” Now occupied by the University of Glasgow.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.873799
Longitude
-4.286978