Description

John Keppie of Honeyman, Keppie and Mackintosh, 1906 for
Glasgow City Improvement Trust. Long 4-storey tenement with
altered shops at ground floor. Astylar with Art Nouveau
detailing. Red ashlar. Staircase in outer bays giving access
to open rear access balconies with metal handrails. 3
repeating sections with flanking splayed bays set in
pilastered recesses under stylised segmental pediments; 2
single-light bays with City of Glasgow coat of arms, dated
1907, to centre of each section. Stacks flanked by convex
parapets with metal handrails; Open pediments and keyblocks
to entrances. Grilled openings coupled in giant recesses with
swags over. Keyblocked, arched upper windows in rectangular
surrounds and gablets rising through balustrades. Modillion
cornice to shops with glazed fanlights. Ground floor
treatment repeated in Cowcaddens Street. Corner with circular
tower wth slated dome; moulded cornice with cartouches. 1 bay
of paired lights under stylised segmental pediment links
stair tower to corner turret on Hope Street; 3 bays to
Cowcaddens Street with end pedimented bay.

Statement of Interest

Probably designed by John Keppie.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17806494

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014