265, 267, 269 High Street, Glasgow

265, 267, and 269 High Street in Glasgow is a tenement building designed by William Boston of Burnet and Boston, dated 1901. It is located on the west side of two quadrants of City Improvement Trust tenements that curve up High Street, showcasing Scottish Renaissance detailing.

This four-storey tenement, which includes an attic, is constructed from red sandstone ashlar. It features a two-bay façade on George Street and a 35-bay façade on High Street, arranged in seven stepped groups of irregularly composed five-bay tenements. Each group has central closes, with entrances that alternate between segmental and pedimented styles. Shops flank each close, consisting of three bays with inwardly canted doorways, decoratively pedimented timber doors, fanlights, and metal-framed plate glass shop windows.

Pilasters separate each of the seven tenements, with a frieze above the shops and consoled cornices above the ground floor. There is a cill course at the third floor. The second-floor windows vary in design, featuring architraves and pediments, along with carved panels. Each tenement has canted outer bays, with two full-height above ground featuring piend roofs, and two corbelled to square gableheads at the third floor, which are flanked by corbelled canted third-floor oriels.

The corner with George Street has a bowed bay that jetties on a billeted course at the eaves, leading into a bowed dormerhead with fluted pilasters. Some windows are stone mullioned bipartite designs, while others are plate glass sash and case windows. The roofs are slate, with the southern tenement featuring a mansard attic, finialled gableheads, and piend roofs, along with wallhead stacks.

Several closes retain glazed dado tiling, and there are dated panels and a panel displaying the City crest. The canted bays are adorned with Glasgow Style wrought-iron parapets. Currently, many windows are boarded up.