Description

John Baird and James Thomson, 1858-60 in style of 1830. 3
storeys, 5 x 9 bays. Polished ashlar, channelled at ground
floor with voussoirs, droved ashlar side and return
elevation. Central fluted doorpiece with shaved capitals, at
head of steps oversailing basement to West George Street.
Consoled, segmentally pedimented doorpiece to arched,
architraved entry at No 175 Hope Street. Plinth, rising on
slope of hill. All windows sash and case in architraves.
Shallow arched ground floor windows on cill band, ground
floor cornice. 1st floor cill band; consoled, corniced
windows with inset moulded cills. 2nd floor cill band;
corbelled plain windows. Eaves entablature; modillion
cornice. Solid parapet with regular coupled piers.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17810610

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014