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Latitude: 55.8562 / 55°51'22"N
Longitude: -4.2438 / 4°14'37"W
OS Eastings: 259645
OS Northings: 664838
OS Grid: NS596648
Mapcode National: GBR 0NN.SF
Mapcode Global: WH3P8.S2BC
Plus Code: 9C7QVQ44+FF
Entry Name: The Tron, 11 Saltmarket, Glasgow
Listing Name: 11-27 (Odd Nos) Saltmarket
Listing Date: 15 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 375798
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB32842
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: 11 Saltmarket, The Tron
ID on this website: 200375798
Location: Glasgow
County: Glasgow
Town: Glasgow
Electoral Ward: Calton
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Sir J J Burnet, 1899-1900. Simplified Scots Renaissance, gabled tenement block with 3-bay single storey bar to North. 4-storey and attic, 8-bay symmetrical tenement range. Ashlar. Shops at ground with doors to upper floors in narrow, advanced, 3rd and 6th bays, set in architraves with bull's eye above. Ground floor cornice, broken by balconies over doors. Single or bipartite windows with corbelled canted windows to 2nd floor in 2nd, 4th, 5th and 7th bays, the outer rising through 3rd floor. Cornice over 2nd and 3rd floors; gable dormers to outer and centre bays, 1 attic window with Jacobean decoration in gable, pedimented dormer with pyramidal roof over entrance bay. Slate roof. Bar to N with elegant arched timber bar front, angle door and return bay. Some elaborate engraved glass remains, particularly to Saltmarket. Crowning balustrade unfortunately removed. Interior sensitively fitted, retaining the gantry behind the bar and chimney piece.
Built for Caledonian Railway Co and including ventilation opening for railway tunnel below. Bar partially extended over ventilation opening by Cullen, Lochhead & Brown of Hamilton, 1909. Information from Glasgow City Council.
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