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Latitude: 55.8589 / 55°51'31"N
Longitude: -4.2565 / 4°15'23"W
OS Eastings: 258862
OS Northings: 665157
OS Grid: NS588651
Mapcode National: GBR 0LM.7H
Mapcode Global: WH3P2.LZ9W
Plus Code: 9C7QVP5V+HC
Entry Name: 28-38 Union Street, Glasgow
Listing Name: 28-40 (Even Nos) Union Street
Listing Date: 19 July 2004
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 397591
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB49900
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Georgic Restaurant
Peacock's Tearoom
ID on this website: 200397591
Location: Glasgow
County: Glasgow
Town: Glasgow
Electoral Ward: Anderston/City/Yorkhill
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Tagged with: Building
Whyte & Galloway, 1929-31. 5-storey 3-bay L-plan Art Deco former tea room, restaurant and shop (now only shop). Sandstone ashlar to street elevation, predominantly red brick to rear and sides. Ground floor cornice. Steel casement windows with margined panes and deep panelled metal band couse dividing 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors.
W (STREET) ELEVATION: modern shop front at ground. From 1st floor to 3rd floor, slightly advanced shallow canted bay window section flanked by stylised pilasters. Recessed tripartite window separated by pair of stylised foliate mullions at 4th floor (attic style), surmounted by block pediment. At outer bays bipartite windows, recessed with stone mullions.
E ELEVATION: 6-bay, 5-storey to bays 1-2, 6-storey to bays 3-6. Large off-centre area of later brick infill.
N & S ELEVATIONS: masked by adjoining buildings.
INTERIOR: somewhat altered but near-intact Art Deco decoration survives in rooms on 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. Some timber dado panelling to staircases, some with tensioned metal wire panels. Large timber panels to stairways, some now with mirrors. 1st floor: sectioned ceiling with original plasterwork, including shallow flora motif. 2nd floor: sectioned ceiling with wall pilasters at sections. Between, large panels now obscured by shop display. Simple geometric diamond pattern plasterwork to ceiling and wall panels. 3rd floor: impressive curved 2-leaf pedimented entrance doorway flanked by triple light stained glass screen of highly stylised organic design. Sectioned combed ceiling with shallow Grecian-style pilasters at sections. Between, large panels now obscured by shop display. Shallow 'Jazz-age' plasterwork to ceiling and wall panels. Elsewhere, some timber doors with simple stepped design.
Predominantly original metal-framed casement windows, those to street elevation margined. Flagpole to centre of W elevation.
Built for Messrs R A Peacock & Son Ltd and known as the 'Georgic Restaurant', this building is a good, late example of Glasgow's tea room tradition. It forms a strong streetscape feature in Union Street. Dean of Guild Plans show the planned layout of the restaurant from the basement upwards as: Smoke Room, Shop, Tea Room, Restaurant, Reception Room, and a Kitchen on the 4th floor.
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