Description

James Miller, 1896. Flemish Renaissance 2-storey former
underground railway station. Rectangular plan; free-
standing. Polished ashlar. Plinth, continuous ground
floor moulded cill band. Pepper-pot turrets to each
angle corbelled out with fluted pilaster strips supported
on cill band; sculpted pilasters in frieze; swept roofs,
decorative finials; narrow architraved lights to N
turrets. Mainly architraved casement windows with
geometric glazing bars. Slate roof. Central corniced
ridge stack.
ELEVATION TO N: central, arched entrance with sculpted
hoodmould and corbelled label stops flanked by narrow
lights with sculpted architraves; 1st floor pierced
balcony on massive corbels, 4 regular lights, outer
colonettes supporting sculpted animals; shaped, gable
flanked by obelisks and surmounted by sculpted acroterion;
aediculed clock. Repeated in simplified at S form with 3
ground floor windows, fluter outer piers, and sculpted
gable.
WESTERN AND EASTERN ELEVATIONS: ground floor single light
window with sculpted architrave flanked by 2-light, stone
mullioned and transomed windows similarly architraved.
1st floor central projecting 2-light half-dormer window
on massive sculpted corbels, pedimented and sculpted
profile flanked by corbelled half-dormers with shell
heads and ball finials.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• St Enoch subway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q1917240

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)