Description

James Boucher, 1875. Italian Renaissance commercial building. 4 storeys with plain glazed ground floor. 3 main bays to St Enoch Square, arranged 2-3-2; 4 unequal, plain return bays to St Enoch Place. Polished ashlar, channelled between bays at 1st floor. Central entrance with keyblocked arch, consoled doorpiece, shouldered lintel, sculpted archivolt and spandrels; cornice supporting wrought-iron balcony. Ground floor mutule cornice. 1st floor pilastraded arched windows, keyblocked with sculpted imposts and fretwork spandrels; entablature with rosette frieze and console cornice. 2nd floor continuous low wrought-iron balcony; colonnaded arched windows with slim colonettes and pilasters between bays; richly sculpted spandrels; outer bays panelled piers with sculpted decoration; sculpted frieze, cornice.

3rd floor similar to 2nd with continuous recessed sculpted aprons, sculpted heads to outer piers; coupled console cornice raised in central bay with panel and rosette frieze; wrought-iron parapet. End stack with outer attached columns.

Statement of Interest

Gilded metal lettering; 'TEACHER' at eaves end, 'ESTA 1830' on brattishing above central door included in listing, but fascia lettering excluded.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17808115

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)