252, 254 High Street, Glasgow

264, 266, 268, 270 High Street in Glasgow is a group of four-storey tenements designed by Burnet, Boston and Carruthers and completed in 1903. These buildings form a quadrant that curves up High Street, opposite an earlier listed quadrant. They showcase Scottish Renaissance architectural detailing.

The tenements feature a five-bay façade facing Duke Street, with a gabled and chamfered corner bay, and a total of 23 bays along High Street, consisting of seven stepped tenements. The design is irregular and asymmetrical, constructed from red sandstone ashlar. Notable elements include dividing piers and pilasters, a consoled cornice at the ground floor, and entrances to closes that alternate between pedimented and segmental styles, each flanked by original metal-framed shop fronts with plate glass and inverted canted doorways, topped with timber pediments and fanlights.

The second floor showcases a variety of pedimented architraved windows, with some canted bays above the ground floor that terminate in gableheads, corbelled to square or flanked by corbelled oriels at the eaves. There are also some stone mullioned bipartite windows, crowstepped and ashlar coped skews adorned with onion finials, and wallhead stacks. The northwest corner features a turret that jetties on a billet course at the third floor, topped with a cone roof and overhanging eaves.

The corner bay has an advanced ground floor with a balustrade and a clock set in a segmental panel at the center. It includes a bowed bay with a recessed gable at the first, second, and third floors, also with a balustrade and strapworked panels, one inscribed with "City Improvement Trust." The gablehead features a bipartite window with a segmental pediment, flanked by corbelled, cone-roofed tourelles topped with ball finials. The Duke Street elevation also has a balustrade.

The buildings have plate-glass sash and case windows and a slate roof, with some closes retaining glazed tiling. The canted bays are decorated with Glasgow Style wrought-iron parapets.