Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

81-107 (ODD NOS) BOTHWELL STREET, 80 BLYTHSWOOD STREET, AND 89 WEST CAMPBELL STREET, SCOTTISH LEGAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETYLB32982

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
15/12/1970
Local Authority
Glasgow
Planning Authority
Glasgow
Burgh
Glasgow
NGR
NS 58517 65421
Coordinates
258517, 665421

Description

E G Wylie (Wright and Wylie), 1927; sculptor Archibald

Dawson. 7-storey steel-framed modern classical commercial

building occupying whole block, 7 x 13 x 7 bays. Inverted

U-plan. Blaxter stone, v-channelled ground floor and quoin

strips; polished granite plinth rising to shop front pilasters

at return elevations; glazed brick rear elevation diapered

between floors in main block. Bronze shop fronts and external

details with Greek-key frieze. Ground floor cornice forming

stylobate; regularly spaced 4 sculpted panels representing

Industry, Prudence, Thrift, and Courage respectively;

architraved, corniced shopfronts; triple-arched entrance with

sculpted soffits; plain windows in mezzanine floor. All

windows metal framed with geometric glazing bars. Solid

balcony with central sculpted coat of arms in central 3 bays

above main entrance, supported on coupled sculpted consoles.

Giant order of stylish Cornithian pilastrade rising from 1st

to 4th floors with metal friezes between floors,

dentil band, projecting cornice with acroters; outer bays

above ground floor: 2-storey aedicule windows, consoled,

corniced, flanked by plain single lights; carved head between

floors; solid panelled balcony on consoles about 1st.

Plain windows above 5th floor; plain entablature. Recessed

glazing to eaves gallery, projecting sculpted panels between

paired escutcheons at angles; main detail band; modillion

cornice.

ELEVATION TO BLYTHSWOOD STREET: basement rising in slope

of hill; ground floor pilastered windows with continuous

cornice, independent windows in outer bays; stepped,

pedimented, keyblocked entrance to No 80 Blythswood Street;

giant pilastrade rising from 1st to 4th floor as main Bothwell

Street elevation in 5 inner bays flanked by plain recessed

margin windows in outer bays.

West Campbell Street return repeats Blythswood Street

elevation.

3 return bays to E and W end of Bothwell Lane, single-lights

in margin recesses.

VESTIBULE AND INTERIOR: bronze folding gates, shell-headed

niches to right and left of entry; fretwork vestibule soffit;

3 bronze entrance doors with friezes - "Scottish Legal

Building"; shallow entrance hall pilasters with polychromatic

capitals; bronze lift with wrought-iron enclosures;

wrought-iron railings and bronze handrails.

Statement of Special Interest

Bronze work by Charles J Henshaw.

References

Bibliography

Information by courtesy of Building of Scotland Research Unit.

S R Archives D of G 1928/429

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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