Description

Circa 1930. 2-storey, 5-bay, Tudorbethan former Telephone Exchange.

Red sandstone bull-faced rubble, squared and snecked with ashlar dressings, base course; stone mullions and transoms and relieving arches; moulded eaves course. Rear wing painted, later addition (?).

Single pile principal block. S elevation near-symmetrical comprised of gabled outer bays; bay to outer right with Tudor-arched, corniced doorway, part moulded surround, fluted consoles and obelisk-flanked overdoor panel (blank), panelled door, small window flanking to right, that to left with tripartite window at ground, bipartite windows at 1st floor rising into gableheads. 3 inner bays comprised of bipartites at ground and smaller bipartite windows at 1st floor under eaves; square timber shuttered recess below window to penultimate right, presumably coal shute. Gabled E side elevation with paired bipartite windows to centre and left and transomed larger bipartite stair window to right over small under stair window. W gabled elevation with door at ground to left and narrow window to right, 1st floor with bipartite transomed window at centre flanked by small windows.

Metal-framed, small-pane casement windows. Grey slate roof with ashlar coped skews and block bracketed skewputts; ashlar ridge.

Statement of Interest

Built as the Scotstoun Telephone Exchange.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56648034

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)