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Latitude: 55.8626 / 55°51'45"N
Longitude: -4.2568 / 4°15'24"W
OS Eastings: 258854
OS Northings: 665575
OS Grid: NS588655
Mapcode National: GBR 0LL.54
Mapcode Global: WH3P2.LX40
Plus Code: 9C7QVP7V+37
Entry Name: 140 West George Street, 138, Glasgow
Listing Name: 138, 140 West George Street, Provincial House
Listing Date: 8 May 1975
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 376830
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB33240
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200376830
Location: Glasgow
County: Glasgow
Town: Glasgow
Electoral Ward: Anderston/City/Yorkhill
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Tagged with: Building
James Thomson (Baird and Thomson), 1859-60. Upper 2 floors
and columns at doors later. 4 storeys half-sunk basement and
attic. 7 bays. Classical commercial building. Polished
ashlar, rusticated at ground floor with vermiculated quoins
and voussoirs, channelled at basement. Paired entries at head
of stone steps oversailing basement, portico with composite
columns and circular pierced parapet. All windows sash and
case in architraves, plate-glass. Ground floor console
keyblocked arched windows on basement bandcourse with aprons
and moulded cills; ground floor cornice. 1st floor windows
with slim outer pilasters, consoled. Corniced 2nd floor
moulded cill band between projecting cills; segmentally
pedimented windows. 3rd floor moulded cill band. Eaves rich
floral frieze, dentil band, modillion cornice. Attic storey
with recessed windows, tripartite in outer bays; lugged
architraves; central bays separated by panelled Doric
pilasters; parapet with panelled piers. Cast-iron railings.
The masonry is modelled on Wilson's at Faculty of
Procurators.
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