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Latitude: 55.8599 / 55°51'35"N
Longitude: -4.2594 / 4°15'33"W
OS Eastings: 258683
OS Northings: 665278
OS Grid: NS586652
Mapcode National: GBR 0KM.M4
Mapcode Global: WH3P2.JZX3
Plus Code: 9C7QVP5R+X6
Entry Name: Daily Record Office, 55 Hope Street, Glasgow
Listing Name: 67 Hope Street (Known As No 55)
Listing Date: 22 March 1977
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 376432
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB33051
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: 55 Hope Street, Daily Record Office
ID on this website: 200376432
Location: Glasgow
County: Glasgow
Town: Glasgow
Electoral Ward: Anderston/City/Yorkhill
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Robert Thomson, 1899, completed 1907. 7-storey former Newspaper Office. Free classical. Polished red ashlar. 3-bay double-height ground floor arched central entrance (altered) flanked by smaller niches with figure sculpture in N bay. Altered 1st floor parapet on sculpted mask corbels. 2 recessed canted bays from 1st to 3rd floor with pilaster mullioned, sash and case windows. 4th floor arched windows with mask heads and solid balcony, crouching sculpted figures on corbels in extreme outer bays supporting facetted piers breaking through roof line. Shallow bowed balustraded balcony to 5th floor, central and side arches framing 5th and 6th floor casement windows with glazing bars. Central scrolled, crowstepped gable with round-arched window flanked by simple piers.
Corniced end stack. Set back bell-shaped tiled roof in N bay.
Designed as J M Smith and Co's Glasgow Evening News Offices and Printing Works. The listing relates only to the 1899-1907 building formerly individually numbered 67 but now included with No 55. Former 'Daily Record' Office. The design was probably Andrew Wilson's.
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