Central Fire Station, 23, 25, 27 Ingram Street, Glasgow

The former Central Fire Station, located at 23, 25, and 27 Ingram Street in Glasgow, was designed by A B MacDonald, City Engineer, and built between 1898 and 1900. It has been converted into flats as of 1988.

This building features four storeys and an attic, with polished red sandstone upper floors and polished pink Peterhead granite on the ground floor. The symmetrical nine-bay frontage faces Ingram Street and includes wide depressed-arch vehicle entrances, except for the central bay which has a bay window. The penultimate bays are adorned with two-storey canted oriels. The central bay has windows grouped in threes, flanked by pilaster strips. The remaining windows are alternately bipartite and single light, with stone mullions and transoms, and are sash and case with plate glass glazing.

The design includes band courses over each floor and at the cills, an eaves cornice, and a deep plain parapet. The penultimate and central bays are topped with triangular gablets that feature oculi and an apex finial. The building has tall, corniced wallhead and axial stacks, and the roofs are covered with slate. The rear elevation is finished in glazed brick.