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Latitude: 55.8211 / 55°49'15"N
Longitude: -4.266 / 4°15'57"W
OS Eastings: 258130
OS Northings: 660973
OS Grid: NS581609
Mapcode National: GBR 3R.69BC
Mapcode Global: WH3P8.FYTB
Plus Code: 9C7QRPCM+CJ
Entry Name: Scottish Power Building (built as Wallace Scott Tailoring Institute), Glasgow
Listing Name: 42 Spean Street, Scottish Power Building Including Access Bridge
Listing Date: 15 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 378138
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB33967
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Wallace Scott And Co Ltd Tailoring Institute, Workshops
ID on this website: 200378138
Location: Glasgow
County: Glasgow
Town: Glasgow
Electoral Ward: Langside
Traditional County: Renfrewshire
Tagged with: Workshop
Sir J J Burnet and Norman Dick, as Wallace Scott Tailoring Institute, 1913-16 and extended 1919-22; when built, a "garden factory on American inspired lines" (Walker), now much altered.
Monumental 4/5-storey block built about rectangular courtyard; frame construction, red brick cladding with ashlar. Ground floor treated as raised basement, giant pilaster strips above, originally with polychrome panels between floors, windows now altered to full depth; flat roof, Main steel access bridge to NE by Kyle, Dennison and Laing, engineers, 1913.
Extensive formal gardens also altered.
"a landmark in its concept as well as its architecture" (Walker). Category B because of altered condition.
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