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38, 40, 42, 44 St Enoch Square, Glasgow

A Category B Listed Building in Glasgow, Glasgow

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8573 / 55°51'26"N

Longitude: -4.2559 / 4°15'21"W

OS Eastings: 258891

OS Northings: 664984

OS Grid: NS588649

Mapcode National: GBR 0LN.B1

Mapcode Global: WH3P8.L1KJ

Plus Code: 9C7QVP4V+WJ

Entry Name: 38, 40, 42, 44 St Enoch Square, Glasgow

Listing Name: 38-44 (Even Nos) St Enoch Square

Listing Date: 21 July 1988

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 376592

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB33125

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200376592

Location: Glasgow

County: Glasgow

Town: Glasgow

Electoral Ward: Anderston/City/Yorkhill

Traditional County: Lanarkshire

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Description

Robert Thomson, circa 1870 with later 5th and 6th floors
(1880s?). 6-storey, 5-bay commercial building; modern
shops at ground floor. Polished ashlar with vermiculated
quoins to 1st and 2nd floors with inset sculpted masks
between floors, segmentally pedimented doorpiece;
elaborate sculpture, granite shafts to outer colonettes
and to pilasters, sculpted frieze and tympanum with head.
All windows sash and case, plate glass; consoled,
segmentally pedimented with sculpted tympana at 1st
floor; 2nd floor floating cornices with ogee-headed panels
and sculpted heads above; 2nd floor cornice with sculpted
frieze; 3rd floor arched windows in panelled pilasters.
Consoled cornice, tripled in central bays, dentils. 4th
floor central window flanked by superimposed pilasters;
3-bay outer sections arcaded with recessed glazing; 5th
floor aediculed windows, raised and pedimented in centre.

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