Description

W J Anderson, 1898-9. Modern Movement manner 4 and 5- storey, concrete model lodging house with ground floor shops arranged in 4 sections.

Front clad in red ashlar, ground floor shop with polished granite facade.

Elevation to Govan Road: 1st floor: small transomed windows, 2 oriels rise through 2nd and 3rd floors from corbelled balcony, separated by large cross window and smaller recessed windows. Gabled attic dormers and corner finials.

Lower 3-bay section to E has 2 corbelled oriels square at 1st, canted above, rising through 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. 1st floor mullioned windows with curvilinear heads. Panel between incribed "WO". Corbelled cornice at 3rd floor cill-level. Wallhead stack. This section heightened in 1905 by George Simpson for a telephone exchange. Napier St elevation: 1st floor cross windows, 2nd floor basket arched cross windows, 3rd floor small deeply recessed windows, 4th gabled attic dormers. Small 16th century style Scots windows and panel over stair door. Corbelled chimney breast. 4-bay section to S, concrete

facade on 3 lower floors. Large windows at ground floor. Deeply recessed windows with thick transoms and mullions at 1st and 2nd floors. 4th floor, ashlar (now painted), 4 pedimented windows, 2 segmental, inscribed WO/AD/1898.

Block at rear 3 by 5-bay, concrete facade. Ground and 1st floor separated by plain pilasters, ground floor large windows, 1 bow, and door. 1st and 2nd floors bipartite to W and tripartite to N, small recessed windows at 4th floor. Parapet.

End bay projects at an angle with small windows.

Statement of Interest

An early concrete floored and walled building without reinforcement. Commissioned by the builder Wm Orr. 5 were killed by the collapse of the top floor during construction. Block at rear 3 by 5-bay, concrete facade, (known as 35 Clydebrae Street), demolished in the mid 1990s.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17812560

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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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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)