Description

Colin Menzies, 1910. Baroque. 3-storeys and attic, 4 x 8 bays
later (1938) S section to Hope Street. Polished red ashlar,
steel framed. Polished granite ground floor, channelled angle
quoins to Renfield Street. Sash and case windows in
architraves, 6 and 15-pane glazing. casement windows with
glazing bars to ground floor.
ELEVATION TO HOPE STREET: ground floor cornice. 1st floor
windows keyblocked. segmentally pedimented, loading bay over
N entrance. 2nd floor windows keyblocked, corniced. Plain
frieze, modillion cornice. Lugged and shouldered attic
windows in corniced, solid die parapet.
ELEVATION TO RENFREW STREET: repeating Hope Street detailing.
Bays arranged 1-6-1, outerbays tripartite in upper floors;
segmentally pedimented doorpiece in E bay. Aprons to 2nd
floor windows. Broken segmental pediments over outer bays.
Wallhead stacks rising from pedimented piers.

Statement of Interest

Built as Douglas Exchange for the National Telephone Company. Public house now (1997) occupies southern part of Hope Street elevation.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17806513

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