Bowling Green Road, Victoria Park, Glasgow

Tucked away on a little-known address in a particularly leafy corner of Victoria Park, 3 Bowling Green Road is an extended four-bedroom traditional mid-terraced villa of exceptional proportions, offering the kind of comfortable, flexible family accommodation that can be grown into and enjoyed over many years.

Bowling Green Road is an extremely attractive cul-de-sac of stone-fronted terraced villas which face south and enjoy a particularly peaceful setting overlooking the neighbouring bowling green. Despite being so close to the heart of the West End, there is a lovely sense of privacy here, making this an address that should immediately appeal to growing families looking for a proper family home with gardens, excellent living space and straightforward access to local schools, amenities and green space.

The property itself is a beautiful example of its type. This is a home of real volume and excellent proportions, with attractive traditional features and an interior which has clearly been carefully maintained and improved by the current owners. Importantly, the house has also been extended substantially to the rear, creating what must be one of the largest family dining kitchens you will find within a traditional terraced home in this part of the West End.

Internally, the accommodation begins with an inviting reception hall which leads through to a lovely bay-windowed lounge. At the heart of this room is a beautiful wood-burning stove, providing an attractive focal point and making this a wonderfully comfortable place to retreat to on a cold winter's evening.

The scale of the extended dining kitchen is particularly impressive and should prove to be one of the property's most memorable attributes. Offering excellent space for cooking, dining and everyday family life, this substantial room is exactly the sort of space that growing families increasingly look for and provides a natural social heart to the home, with plenty of room for everyone to congregate without feeling crowded. The extension has also been thoughtfully designed to include a separate utility room and an additional bathroom, both extremely useful additions to a busy family home and helping to keep the main kitchen and living areas practical and clutter free.

The staircase rises from the reception hall to half-landing level where it splits. The rearward section leads to the main family bathroom and bedroom four, which is tucked peacefully away at the back of the house. While this is a perfectly comfortable fourth bedroom, its slightly separate position would also make it a brilliant dedicated home office, study or guest room.

The main staircase continues to the upper landing where there are three further substantial bedrooms, including two roomy king-sized bedrooms and a generous single bedroom. The arrangement works particularly well for a family, providing plenty of flexibility as children grow and requirements change over time.

Although currently undeveloped, houses of this style also benefit from excellent attic space, providing extremely useful additional storage and helping to keep the principal living areas free from the usual accumulation of suitcases, Christmas decorations and family belongings.
Externally, number 3 has private gardens to both the front and rear. The rear garden is arranged in an attractive, low-maintenance courtyard style and provides a secure and manageable outdoor space for family life. There is also a sturdy garden shed providing valuable storage for bicycles, garden furniture and outdoor equipment. Pedestrian access is available from the rear via the service lane, which is also used by the local authority for refuse collection.

The location is a significant part of the attraction. Victoria Park is close at hand and provides around 50 acres of established parkland together with children's play areas, tennis courts, bowling greens and the boating pond. For families, runners, dog owners or simply anyone who values having proper green space nearby, it is a tremendous amenity to have virtually on the doorstep.

Scotstoun is also particularly well served for sporting and leisure facilities. Glasgow Club Scotstoun is one of the city's largest leisure facilities, incorporating a swimming pool, large gym, fitness classes, the National Badminton Centre and squash facilities. Scotstoun Stadium sits within the same sports campus and is, of course, home to the mighty Glasgow Warriors.

Despite the peaceful nature of Bowling Green Road, the property remains extremely convenient for accessing the wider West End and City Centre, while the surrounding road and cycle network makes it a particularly practical base for those commuting across the west of Glasgow.
The house should have particularly strong appeal to young and growing families who have perhaps outgrown a traditional West End flat and are now looking for a proper family home with gardens and significantly more space. Equally, the location and scale of the accommodation should make number 3 particularly interesting to doctors, consultants and other medical professionals looking for a substantial family home within convenient walking or cycling distance of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and Gartnavel hospitals.

Overall, 3 Bowling Green Road offers a fairly rare combination: a substantial four-bedroom traditional house, exceptional family living space, private gardens and a wonderfully peaceful position overlooking the bowling green, while remaining extremely well connected to Victoria Park and the wider West End.


Attributes

• Substantial traditional four-bedroom mid-terraced villa
• Peaceful position on an attractive cul-de-sac overlooking the bowling green
• South-facing frontage
• Exceptional proportions throughout
• Professionally extended to the rear
• Particularly large family dining kitchen
• Separate utility room
• Additional bathroom within the extended ground-floor accommodation
• Bay-windowed lounge
• Beautiful wood-burning stove
• Four bedrooms
• Two roomy king-sized bedrooms
• Generous single bedroom
• Flexible fourth bedroom, ideal also as a home office or guest room
• Main family bathroom
• Excellent undeveloped attic storage
• Private front garden
• Low-maintenance courtyard-style rear garden
• Sturdy external shed providing bike and garden storage
• Pedestrian access to the rear via service lane
• Excellent access to Victoria Park
• Convenient for Scotstoun leisure and sporting facilities
• Close to Scotstoun Stadium, home of Glasgow Warriors
• Well placed for the West End
• Particularly appealing to growing families
• Convenient for medical professionals working at QEUH and Gartnavel hospitals


EPC: C
Council Tax: F
Tenure: Freehold




EPC Rating: C
Council Tax Band: F