26-36 Bell Street, Glasgow

Thomson and Sandilands, architects, 1904. Cast-iron

framed 6-storey Edwardian Baroque warehouse. 4-bays

with central bay wider, 2-bay similarly detailed elevation

to 45 Albion Street and wider angled bay to corner,

bowed to ground, 1st and 2nd, canted above. Each bay

has 3-window grouping.

Red ashlar sandstone, altered ground floor, channelled to

1st, 2nd and 3rd, with giant order partly fluted Ionic

pilasters supporting an entablature, dividing bays. 4th

and 5th floors with strip pilasters ornately carved at 4th,

panelled to 5th. All windows sash and case with plate

glass glazing. Off-centre wider bay to Bell Street with

elaborate entrance to ground. Carved consoled

segmentally pediment with elaborate tympanum over

pilastered keystoned doorway, double-leaf doors. Above

narrow lights flank advanced 3-window centre with giant

pilasters rising to curved pediment at 4th. Crowning

pediment over whole 5-window section, both pediments

with carved tympana. Balustraded parapet, facetted lead

dome to angle.

Tiled common stair hall with cast-iron balusters.