Clyde Place House, Clyde Place Square, Glasgow

Dated 1878. Manufacturing/commercial building, primarily used from 1883 to after 1927 as a model lodging house with ground floor chandlers and public house. Four-storey, basement and attic 15- by eight-bay with ashlar pilaster pier facades to Clyde Place and Centre Street, brick-built rears.

Elevation to streets: ground floor shopfronts now blocked between timber-clad cast-iron columns. Upper floors recessed bays between timber piers. Aprons of second floor ornately carved. Main dentil cornice. Octagonal pinnacles formerly capped each pair: now survive at angles only.

Rear: plain brick, with sets of blocked triple lights and gable of demolished neighbour. Later lift tower at southwest angle.

Flat felt roof with mansard slopes to sides, latter were probably once slated and had larger skylights. Windows rises with weather vane. Cobbled wharf with small mooring posts on timber piles.