North British And Mercantile Building, 200 St Vincent Street, Glasgow

The North British and Mercantile Building, located at 200 St Vincent Street in Glasgow, is a major commercial structure designed by Sir J J Burnet (Burnet, Son and Dick) and built between 1926 and 1929, with significant internal remodelling completed in 1986 and 1987. This modern classical building features seven storeys and a basement, positioned on a corner site with five wide bays.

The exterior is constructed from ashlar stone with a granite plinth. The central entrance is flanked by attached columns that support a lettered panel displaying the name "NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE BUILDING," above which is a Diocletian window flanked by Doric columns. These columns support a later sculpture of a crouching figure, while another figure of St Andrew, carved by Archibald Dawson and dated 1927, is positioned on a bracket above the entrance, alongside a flanking figure from around 1952.

The ground floor features a plain arcade supported by coupled Doric columns with rosette necking in the outer bays facing St Vincent Street. There is a cill band at the ground floor, and the windows are corniced with stylised keyblocks recessed between the ground and first floors, situated below the Diocletian windows. Above the entrance bay, there is a diminutive aedicule with an open segmental pediment. All windows are casement style with metal glazing bars. The second-floor windows have moulded cills, with keyblocks above every third window. A slightly projecting plain entablature at the third floor forms a cill band for the fourth floor. The sixth floor also features a cill band, with every third window keyblocked and adorned with voussoirs. A bold cornice with a dentil band is interrupted in the first bay from the south at West Campbell Street by a corniced wallhead stack that slightly advances from the base plinth. A sculpted cartouche with the lettering "NB&M" is located on the southwest angle between the fifth and sixth floors.

The rear elevation is finished in white brick with ashlar dressings that complement the coupled ground floor arcade. The boundary is marked by grey granite walls with bold piers along St Vincent Street.