Telephone Exchange, 29 College Street, Glasgow

Office of Works, (C J W Simpson chief architect post

1922) circa 1922. Massive classically derived telephone

exchange building with main elevation to College Street

and long return elevation to Shuttle Street. 5-storeys

and basement, polished grey granite basement, polished

ashlar walling, banded to advanced bays.

COLLEGE STREET ELEVATION: 7-bay arranged with bays

flanking centre (entrance) bay and terminal bays

narrower, shallow advanced and taller with single light

windows. Otherwise tripartite windows to wider bays,

central bay has main entrance, subsidiary entrances to

terminal bays.

CENTRAL ENTRANCE: disc band margin, deep cavetto reveals,

door modern glazed and metal framed. Above door, panel

with coat of arms breaks into semi-circular 1st floor

window. Doors at terminal bays, architraved with oculus

over, panelled double-leaf doors.

Ground and 1st floor windows set in shallow recessed

panels of masonry, ground floor windows with column

mullions, 1st floor windows being semi-circular with

small-pane glazing and top-hopper windows. Other

windows tripartite or single light. Windows with sash and

case 12-pane glazing, plate-glass to lower sashes of

ground floor only.

Cartouches flank central 4th floor window, deep cornice,

plain parapet stepped up over central bay.

SHUTTLE STREET ELEVATION: similarly detailed 5-bay

elevation. All windows tripartite, to end bays blind,

shallow advanced bands of masonry. Deep cornice and

plain parapet.