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Latitude: 55.8594 / 55°51'33"N
Longitude: -4.2511 / 4°15'4"W
OS Eastings: 259200
OS Northings: 665208
OS Grid: NS592652
Mapcode National: GBR 0MM.B9
Mapcode Global: WH3P2.NZVG
Plus Code: 9C7QVP5X+QH
Entry Name: Arthur's Warehouse, 81 Miller Street, Glasgow
Listing Name: 77-81 (Odd Nos) Miller Street, Arthur's Warehouse
Listing Date: 6 November 1966
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 375654
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB32759
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: 81 Miller Street, Arthur's Warehouse
ID on this website: 200375654
Location: Glasgow
County: Glasgow
Town: Glasgow
Electoral Ward: Anderston/City/Yorkhill
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Tagged with: Building
Robert Black and James Salmon Sen, 1849-50. Extensive
15-bay (6-3-6), Renaissance style, 3-storey offices,
(now domestic) with emphasis to central bays. Painted
ashlar. Base course, channelled ground floor and deep
cornice.
GROUND FLOOR: central bays to each section pilastered,
wide entrance to close in left bay of central, slightly
advanced section, now columned window in right;
Venetian windows in both floors above with segmental
shell pediments to central lights and flanking windows.
Paired semi-circular headed lights to central windows of
outer sections at ground floor, 2 windows above with
apron balustrades and segmental shell pediments,
simplified in 2nd. All remaining windows with panelled
pilasters and corniced. Crowning balustraded and solid
die parapet. Decorative cast-iron gates to close.
12-pane glazing pattern to sash and case windows.
Major watershed in terms of commercial building for
Glasgow, comparable with Royal Bank of Scotland, Gordon
Street. 1849 work was commissioned by Archibald
MacLellan, who had run a coach building company on the
site, destroyed by fire in 1847. Leased Messrs D & J
Macdonald, the largest firm of sewed muslin
manufacturers in Glasgow, until 1855.
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