Anderson's College Of Medicine, University Of Glasgow, 56 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow

James Sellars (Cambell Douglas & Sellars), completed John Keppie, 1888-89; additions, Honeyman & Keppie, 1895; alterations, Keppie & Henderson, 1936-7; alterations & additions, Keppie, Henderson & Gleave, 1954-5; interior rebuilt and extended, 1990; interior refurbishment 2007 onwards. Medical teaching building in Early Italian Renaissance style. Original 4- and 5-bay L-plan ranges clasped around later rectangular-plan blocks to NW; chamfered entrance and arched 'tower' at external angle; varying roof heights. Squared snecked rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings. Notable sculpted panels by James Pittendreigh MacGillivray to Dumbarton Road and E elevations.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: ELEVATION TO DUMBARTON ROAD: plinth. 3 W bays stone mullioned and transomed windows, ground floor cornice; 1st floor cill band, blind niche to each bay. E bay shallow projecting with tripartite window with 6-lights to ground floor, corbelled balustraded balcony above to 1st floor tripartite window with Corinthian column mullions and arched, relief sculpted tympanum springing from outer pilasters. Deep bracketted cornice. Single E return bay of raised section with niche at 1st floor. ENTRANCE BAY: Corinthian columned portico with arched entrance double-leaf panelled doors, balustraded parapet. Arched window above. Cornice, parapet. S facing raised block to right of entrance with sculpted, corniced tablet at eaves level and open, arched pedimented aedicule with parapet above. E ELEVATION: 1st bay from S projecting and pedimented; ground floor relief frieze to both sides of circular window; 6-light arched window above. 5 N bays with 4-light window to ground floor and 2-light pedimented windows with column mullion above. Sculpted relief panels to 2nd floor. Eaves cornice broken by regular raised, corniced piers. Links to Pontecorvo, Robertson and Virology Buildings.

2-pane timber sash and case windows Grey slate roof; axial and wallhead stacks.

GATEPIERS, GATES AND BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS TO DUMBARTON ROAD: tall red sandstone cluster gatepiers with obelisks; decorative wrought-iron gates; dwarf wall with decorative wrought-iron railings.

INTERIOR: (seen 2010) no original features visible.