Victoria Grain Mills, 155-159 West Street, Glasgow

W F McGibbon 1894, 1896. 3- and 4-storey and attic brick

ornate Flemish style grain mill, in 3 sections.

1. Wallace Street, 1894 3-storey, 5-bay block. Ground floor

altered, except cornice. Tall basket-arched recesses rise

through 1st and 2nd floors with large transomed and mullioned

windows set in arch head on second floor. The narrower 5th

bay fronts a staircase. Curvilinear gable with 3 tall arched

windows over 2 end bays. Slate roof.

1. 1896 Corner block, 3-by-3 bays, small ground floor windows

blocked. Basket arched recesses similar to E block embracing

3 floors. Mullioned windows with V-oriel in outer bay of 1st

floor to each elevation. Tall corner tower has 2 twin arched

and hoodmoulded windows to each elevation, corbelled

machicolated parapet, battlement. Formerly held water

cistern.

1. 1896, 4-storey and attic 2-bay block, gable end to West

Street, detailed as above, with triple arched windows in

curvilinear gable and small crowning segmental pediment.

The 2 West Street blocks were linked by a recessed cart entry

with former engine house and grain silo at rear. Linking iron

gantries around a hoist. Later brick 3rd floor gantry and

modern metal sheeting below. A V-oriel faces inwards.

Interior: ground and 1st floor has original concrete floors

and steel supports. Upper floors iron columns, steam beams

and wooden floors.