Description
T G Abercrombie, architect 1899. Free Renaissance. Former club
and welfare offices and facades to both street. Ashlar. 78
Maxwellton Road: 3 storey and attic over basement. 3 bays
central one of which is projecting tower of channelled ashlar
up to 2nd floor cornice. Architraved doorpiece, recessed in
round-headed surround with carved keystone and tympanum;
moulded string course over. 1st floor tripartite and 2nd floor
thermal window also recessed in arched surround. Cornice over;
attic storey to 2 oculi, wide eaves and pagoda copper roof.
Side bays have tripartite windows each floor and bipartite
dormers with segmental pediments rising from cornice. Slate
roof with corniced end stacks. 27 Ferguslie elevation; 2
storey and attic, 3 bays. Round-arched door with splayed
carved surround, flanked by candelabra on pedestals.
Corbelled balcony over. Ground floor windows round headed with
splayed surrounds and cill course. 1st floor centre bay has 3 round-headed windows, each transomed framed by 4 Ionic engaged
columns on pedestals supporting carved attic breaking through
eaves and capped by pediment with oval oculus. Flanking 1st
floor window flat-headed with moulded hoods and cills. Wide
eaves. Slate roof with skews, flat-headed dormers, and
corniced end stacks.