Liverpool And London And Globe Insurance Buildings, 125, 127 St Vincent Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 July 1988. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
Liverpool And London And Globe Insurance Buildings, 125, 127 St Vincent Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-render-aspen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1988
- Type
- Commercial building
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Robert Hutchison, dated 1897. Free Renaissance
commercial building. 5 storeys and attic, 6-storey
corner tower; 2 asymmetrical bays to St Vincent Street,
3 bays to Hope Street. Red ashlar. All windows
mullioned, or mullioned and transomed. Entrance at
splayed angle flanked by 2 arched windows, all
pilastered; diminutive bipartites above also pilastered
and pedimented; bold sculpted corbel table above 1st
turning splay to circle; mullon and transom windows in
2nd, 3rd, 4th, 4th broken segmental pediments and
balconies; oval windows in carved frames in 5th; steep
conical roof with apex cupola. E bay to St Vincent
Street windows canted ground through 2nd storeys,
basket-arched 3rd, 4-light window 4th above, elaborate
stepped gable; detail continued to Hope Street except
canted oriel window above ground floor to 2nd and gables
flanking centre. Additional entrance in W narrow bay St
Vincent Street. Steep Westmoreland slate roof with red
tile ridge; tall corniced and panelled stacks. Curved
bay to St Vincent Lane, corbelled to octagonal at 4th.
Bell-cast green slate roof.
Detailed Attributes
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