102, 104 St Vincent Street, Glasgow

102 and 104 St Vincent Street in Glasgow is an Italian Renaissance commercial building designed by Clarke and Bell in 1853. It stands three storeys tall with a later attic and features modern shops on the ground floor. The facade is divided into five by seven bays and is constructed of painted ashlar. The ground floor has a plain frieze, while the first floor showcases a moulded cill band that serves as a base for a regular colonnade of semi-engaged Corinthian columns, which separate the window bays. The first floor also includes decorated architraves with sculpted mask keyblocks, a frieze, and a dentil cornice. The second floor windows are framed by rope mould architraves. A continuous string course, a dentil band, and a deep, panelled, coupled console cornice lead to a balustraded parapet that is interrupted by a three-light section facing St Vincent Street. This architectural detail is mirrored on the elevation facing Renfield Street, where an engaged column shaft is present at the first floor and a colonnette at the second.