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1-7 Westmuir Street, Glasgow

A Category B Listed Building in Shettleston, Glasgow

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8514 / 55°51'5"N

Longitude: -4.1971 / 4°11'49"W

OS Eastings: 262553

OS Northings: 664206

OS Grid: NS625642

Mapcode National: GBR 0ZQ.85

Mapcode Global: WH4QF.H6M2

Plus Code: 9C7QVR23+H5

Entry Name: 1-7 Westmuir Street, Glasgow

Listing Name: 1-15 (Odd Nos) Westmuir Street and 1361 Duke Street

Listing Date: 6 January 1986

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 377504

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB33656

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200377504

Location: Glasgow

County: Glasgow

Town: Glasgow

Electoral Ward: Shettleston

Traditional County: Lanarkshire

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Description

Crawford and Veitch, 1905 (dated). 4-storey and attic corner tenement with renaissance ornament and decorative sculpture, square corner towerv with distinctive bell-shaped cupola of Scots renaissance type. Shops at ground. Stone-cleaned red ashlar above archtiraves/margins; 4 3-storey canted windows to Westmuir Street in roughly symmetrical arrangement and in bays reaching through eaves; shorter flank to Duke Street. Original plate glass sashes. Dormers; stacks. Good Art Nouveau close tiles to 1361 Duke Street.

Statement of Interest

Built for G R and J R Watson. Eastern block not built. Tower based on now demolished Canal Boatmen's Institute at Port Dundas which was in turn based on the Old College in High Street.

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