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

A B MacDonald, City Engineer, 1898-1900. Former Central

Fire Station, now (1988) coverted to flats.

4-storey and attic polished red sandstone upper floors,

polished pink Peterhead granite to ground floor. 9-bay

symmetrical frontage to Ingram Street. Wide depressed-

arch vehicle entrances to ground except to centre which

has bay window. Over ground, 2-storey canted oriels to

penultimate bays. To centre bay windows grouped in 3's

flanked by pilaster strips. Otherwise windows alternately

bipartite and single light, stone mullions and transoms,

sash and case with plate glass glazing.

Band courses over each floor and at cills, eaves cornice,

deep plain parapet. To penultimate and centre bays,

triangular gablets with oculi, apex finial. Tall, corniced,

wallhead and axial stacks; slate roofs.

Rear elevation glazed brick.