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20-40 Gordon Street, Glasgow

A Category A Listed Building in Glasgow, Glasgow

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Latitude: 55.8607 / 55°51'38"N

Longitude: -4.256 / 4°15'21"W

OS Eastings: 258897

OS Northings: 665359

OS Grid: NS588653

Mapcode National: GBR 0LL.BV

Mapcode Global: WH3P2.LYJH

Plus Code: 9C7QVP6V+7H

Entry Name: 20-40 Gordon Street, Glasgow

Listing Name: 20-40 (Even Nos) Gordon Street and 1, 3 West Nile Street

Listing Date: 15 December 1970

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 376405

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB33031

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: 20–40 Gordon Street

ID on this website: 200376405

Location: Glasgow

County: Glasgow

Town: Glasgow

Electoral Ward: Anderston/City/Yorkhill

Traditional County: Lanarkshire

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Description

Peddie and Kinnear (Edinburgh), 1873. 4-storey classical commercial building with modern shops at ground floor, 16 x 16 bays. Polished ashlar. All windows sash and case, plate glass. Consoled, pedimented entrance with acroterion and antefixae at No 30 Gordon Street. Ground floor cornice, remains of original shop fronts. Superimposed anta orders above; 1st floor stylised pilastrade with wider angle pilasters on continuous podium. 2nd floor pilastrade continuous podium. 3rd, pilastrade with recessed, 2-light windows with pilaster mullions. Main entablature with cavetto cornice. Splayed, wallhead stack to West Nile

Street. Cornice returns 1 bay to W at northmost bay in West Nile Street. Corniced wallhead stacks to brick return rear elevation.

Statement of Interest

Dated "PK 1873" some ground floor alterations by Peddie, Washington Browne 1904. S R Archives, D of G 2/90. Upgraded B to A 21.7.88

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