1-11 Renfield Street, Glasgow

1-11 Renfield Street in Glasgow is a classical warehouse built in 1858 by Boucher and Cousland, with later alterations by Sir J J Burnet (Burnet Son and Campbell) between 1896 and 1902. The building has four storeys and an attic, featuring a total of five by six bays, with a three-bay, bowed corner section added.

The exterior is finished in painted ashlar and includes channelled quoins on the corner piers. The flat outer sections have keyblocked Italianate arched glazed pilastrade at each floor. The first floor features Ionic columns, while the second floor has Corinthian columns, coupled at the western end, with a mutule cornice between the floors. The eaves are bracketted with a mutule cornice, and there is a balustraded balcony on the third floor. The recessed glazing is separated by deep panelled piers, and there is a plain entablature. The steep mansard roof is raised at the northeast corner and includes a cast-iron balustrade.

The corner section features channelled angle pilasters that rise into the attic to support a sculpture on the first-floor balcony. There is a central aedicule with an open segmental head and a sculpted tympanum on the first floor, along with a mutule cornice. A giant order of two Corinthian columns rises through the first and second storeys, and there are three pedimented, lugged architraved attic lights separated by sculpted figures. The cornice has semi-circular drops and includes a cupola with a columned roof lantern.

The northmost outer bay facing Renfield Street has flanking channelled piers and an attic light similar to the corner section. Inside, there is a columned ground floor and a carved timber imperial staircase that leads to all floors.