38, 40, 42, 44 St Enoch Square, Glasgow

Robert Thomson, circa 1870 with later 5th and 6th floors

(1880s?). 6-storey, 5-bay commercial building; modern

shops at ground floor. Polished ashlar with vermiculated

quoins to 1st and 2nd floors with inset sculpted masks

between floors, segmentally pedimented doorpiece;

elaborate sculpture, granite shafts to outer colonettes

and to pilasters, sculpted frieze and tympanum with head.

All windows sash and case, plate glass; consoled,

segmentally pedimented with sculpted tympana at 1st

floor; 2nd floor floating cornices with ogee-headed panels

and sculpted heads above; 2nd floor cornice with sculpted

frieze; 3rd floor arched windows in panelled pilasters.

Consoled cornice, tripled in central bays, dentils. 4th

floor central window flanked by superimposed pilasters;

3-bay outer sections arcaded with recessed glazing; 5th

floor aediculed windows, raised and pedimented in centre.