Engineering Works, 8-14 Scotland Street, Glasgow

2 sections:

1. 1864-5, 2-storey 11-bay block, ashlar. Ground floor

segmental arched windows and large basket arched cartway with

bold voussoirs. String course. 1st floor arched windows with

13-pane glazing pattern. 2 windows over door blocked. Tie

plate at eaves level. Slate roof.

Interior a high single storey L-plan. Inside of L formerly

opened to a yard, 2 tall cylindrical cast-iron columns with

mountings for jib cranes (the latter removed). 3 W bays

formerly 2-storey with upper floor a panelled office.

Kingpost timber roof.

1. 1870-1, 2-storey 4-by 6-bay office. Front ashlar,

channelled on ground floor continuing across quoins. Basket

arched door and sash and case windows with roll moulded

arrises. Cornice over ground quoins. 1st floor 4 basket

arched windows. Eaves cornice. Wallhead stack. Paterson

Street elevation 6 bays, brick, now harled except yellow

brick margins. 1 window now a door. Dentil cornice. Ground

and 1st floors. Slate roof, corrugated rear.

Interior: panelled window reveals, plaster cornice and

ceiling rose, now part of warehouse, ground floor. Upstairs

a flat.