38, 40, 42, 44 St Enoch Square, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 July 1988. Commercial building. 4 related planning applications.
38, 40, 42, 44 St Enoch Square, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- sunken-cupola-storm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1988
- Type
- Commercial building
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
38, 40, 42, 44 St Enoch Square in Glasgow is a six-storey, five-bay commercial building designed by Robert Thomson around 1870, with later additions of a fifth and sixth floor possibly from the 1880s. The building features a polished ashlar facade with vermiculated quoins on the first and second floors, and inset sculpted masks placed between the floors. The entrance has a segmentally pedimented doorpiece, and there is elaborate sculpture, including granite shafts for the outer colonettes and pilasters, as well as a sculpted frieze and tympanum with a head.
All the windows are sash and case with plate glass. The first-floor windows are consoled and segmentally pedimented, adorned with sculpted tympana. The second floor has floating cornices with ogee-headed panels and sculpted heads above, along with a cornice featuring a sculpted frieze. The third floor showcases arched windows set within panelled pilasters. The cornice is consoled and tripled in the central bays, with dentils. The fourth floor has a central window flanked by superimposed pilasters, while the outer sections are arcaded with recessed glazing. The fifth floor features aediculed windows that are raised and pedimented in the center. The ground floor has been modernized with shops.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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