Cranston's Picture House, 13, 15, 17 Renfield Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1985. Commercial. 7 related planning applications.
Cranston's Picture House, 13, 15, 17 Renfield Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- crooked-floor-foxglove
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1985
- Type
- Commercial
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
James Miller (with Richard M Gunn) 1914-16, reconstructed from earlier building by Thomson and Menzies of 1898. Built as tearoom with accommodation for 847 and small cinema.
Impressive Beaux Arts faience Carrara-ware facade, 5 bays with 1 bay returns, end bays advanced and set in broad plain pilasters. Ground floor largely modernised. 1st floor thermal window with metal balustrade over former cinema entrance, square headed keyblocked windows at corner bays; 2nd and 3rd floors set in giant pilasters, 2nd floor windows square-headed with inset entablatures, 3rd floor windows segment headed and keyblocked under continuous frieze band; 4th floor windows pilastraded (inset at corner bays) with bold mutuled cornice, massively bracketted on front faces of end bays. 5th floor set back as semi-eaves gallery treatment with high relief ornament between windows and bold cornice between the corner bays which rise higher into pavilion features with recessed Doric columns.
Interior: designed by John Ednie in Louis XVI manner fire damaged 1981 and largely destroyed.
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