Description
John Keppie (Honeyman and Keppie), 1903. Early Renaissance;
4-storey, 3-bay, gable fronted office building with early
19th century rear building attached at 1st floor level.
ELEVATION TO SAUCHIEHALL STREET: 1st and 2nd floor windows
sash and case with 8-pane glazing in upper sash and 2-pane
glazing in lower; 1st floor mutule cornice. 1st floor windows curvilinear sculpted architraves with keystones, sculpted
pilasters, keystoned heads, shaped in centre bay,
semi-circular in outer bays. 2nd floor: continuous moulded
cill band; flanking polygonal piers with sculpted corbels in
outer bays; architraved corbelled windows; 2nd floor cornice
becoming semi-circular bracketted podiums on either side of
centre bay and supporting 2 sculpted seated figures. 3 blind
bays to 3rd floor with architraved panels and pilastraded
central bay. Shaped gable with sculpted relief supporting
1-bay architraved aedicule with keystoned, semi-circular
head. Plain eaves frieze and cornice.
REAR BUILDING: 3-storey, 3-bay house. Painted ashlar. Ground
floor band. 2nd floor moulded cill band. All windows sash and
case, T-pane with 8 panes in upper sash, architraves to 1st
floor dropped to band. Slate roof. Straight skews with 2
gable stacks.
INTERIOR OF REAR BUILDING: 1st floor drawing room with column
screen and Carron Company hob grate cast-iron fireplace with
Adamitic surround.