The Citizen Building, 24 St Vincent Place, Glasgow

The Citizen Building, located at 24 St Vincent Place in Glasgow, was designed by T L Watson and constructed between 1885 and 1889. This four-storey building, which includes an attic and basement, serves as an office and printing works and showcases a Dutch Renaissance architectural style. It features six asymmetrical bays and is primarily built of red Ballochmyle sandstone, with a brick rear and fireproof construction.

The ground floor has arched openings, with an off-centre doorway to the left that includes two-leaf panelled doors topped with a fanlight. The bays on the ground floor are divided by panelled pilasters, with the three right bays adorned with Corinthian detailing in the portico and ornately carved columns. Above the ground floor is a roundel frieze that includes the words "CITIZEN OFFICE" in roundels on the right half. The first and second floors have mullioned and transomed bipartite windows, with two canted bays positioned off-centre to the right on the first floor. The second floor features consoled balconies above the flat windows and above the canted bays. An ornate frieze above the second floor is interrupted by pedimented panels over each window.

On the third floor, there are four depressed arches with recessed windows, showcasing elaborate carvings on the dividing piers and spandrels. A corbelled clock is located on the outer right side of the third floor, featuring two faces, while a single window on the outer left has a segmental pediment. There is one dormer on the outer left with a broken segmental pediment, and two stepped and scrolled gables at the centre and right, each with round-arched bipartite windows flanked by slender columns. An octagonal turret with an arcaded and leaded cupola is situated on the outer right. The ground floor has modern small-pane timber glazing, while the upper floors feature plate glass casements beneath slated roofs with clay ridge tiles.

The rear elevation, facing Citizen Lane, is asymmetrical and includes bipartite windows along with two wallhead gables. Inside, the main office has a simple coffered ceiling, pilasters with ornate capitals, and panelled ingoes around the round-arched windows.