Description

David Bryce and Robert Smith, 1872. 4-storey and attic Scots Baronial corner tenement block with shops to ground and 1st floors; 8 bays to St Giles Street; single 2-window gabled bay to High Street; slated conical roof with weathervane and small timber dormer to bowed corner bay. Coursed ashlar. Continuous cornices to ground and 1st floors. Shouldered openings to pilastraded ground and 1st floors, those to ground floor with engaged Corinthian colonnettes, those to 1st floor flanked by Corinthian pilasters. Crowstepped gables with heraldic panels and apex stacks. 3 2-window gabled bays to St Giles Street; intervening single bays with finialled, pedimented dormerheads breaking eaves to attic; timber-panelled door with plate glass fanlight to centre.

Plate glass to shops, 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows above. Corniced apex stacks with circular cans. Grey slates.

Statement of Interest

St Giles Street was formed by in 1869, by the demolition of tenements and closes. The site belonged to the Royal Bank, and was developed by them. St Giles Street became a street of newspaper offices; Nos 2-10 were originally the offices of the Glasgow Herald.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17793664

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)