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Latitude: 55.861 / 55°51'39"N
Longitude: -4.2557 / 4°15'20"W
OS Eastings: 258922
OS Northings: 665396
OS Grid: NS589653
Mapcode National: GBR 0LL.DQ
Mapcode Global: WH3P2.LYQ7
Plus Code: 9C7QVP6V+CP
Entry Name: 19, 21, 23 West Nile Street, Glasgow
Listing Name: 19-23 (Odd Nos) West Nile Street and 2-6 (Even Nos) Drury Street
Listing Date: 21 July 1988
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 376892
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB33286
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200376892
Location: Glasgow
County: Glasgow
Town: Glasgow
Electoral Ward: Anderston/City/Yorkhill
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
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4-storey corner commercial block related in design to J J Stevenson's 67-79 St Vincent Street (1875-8). 3 bays to West Nile Street (windows 2-3-2 at 1st floor), 4 bays to Drury Street (2-2-2-2). Ashlar with mannered rustication at 1st floor. (Modern shop fronts). Both elevations similarly detailed except for wide central bay to West Nile Street. Sash and case windows, slate mansard roof.
1ST FLOOR: single windows with bold keytstones, architraves to central windows with swags between. Greek-key frieze.
2ND FLOOR: cill course; outer windows with Gibbsian surrounds, key blocked and corniced, inner architraved and pedimented, central window to West Nile Street tripartite with pilastered central light and segmental pediment.
3RD/ATTIC FLOOR: bold, elaborately sculptured wallhead dormers to outer bays on West Nile Street with Jacobean pilastered bipartites under swan-neck pediments and whole of each outer bay under segmental pediments. Similarly detailed bipartites to remaining bays.
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