The Citizen Building, 24 St Vincent Place, Glasgow

T L Watson, 1885-9. Dutch Renaissance, 4-storey, attic

and basement office building and printing works. 6

asymmetrical bays. Red Ballochmyle sandstones; brick rear;

fireproof construction.

Arched openings to ground with doorway off-centre to

left; 2-leaf panelled doors with fanlight. Ground floor

bays divided by panelled pilasters; 3 right bays with

Corinthian detailed treatment to portico, ornately carved

columns. Roundel freize above ground floor, with CITIZEN

OFFICE in roundels of right half. Mullioned and transomed

bipartites at 1st and 2nd floor, with 2 canted bays

off-centre to right at 1st floor. Consoled balconies to

2nd floor flat windows and above canted bays. Ornate

frieze above 2nd floor, broken by pedimented panels over

each window. 4 depressed arches with recess windows to

3rd floor, with elaborate carving to dividing piers and

spandrels.

Corbelled clock to outer right at 3rd floor with 2 faces,

and single window to outer left with segmental pediment.

1 dormer to outer left with broken segmental pediment;

2 stepped and scrolled gables at centre and right with

round-arched bipartite windows flanked by slender columns.

Octagonal turret with arcaded and leaded cupola to outer

right. Modern small-pane timber glazing at ground; plate

glass casements above slated roofs with clay ridge tiles.

CITIZEN LANE (REAR) ELEVATION: asymmetrical with bipartite

windows and 2 wallhead gables.

INTERIOR: simple coffered ceiling to main office,

pilasters with ornate capitals; panelled ingoes to round-

arched windows.