Cranston's Picture House, 13, 15, 17 Renfield Street, Glasgow

Cranston's Picture House, located at 13, 15, and 17 Renfield Street in Glasgow, was designed by James Miller in collaboration with Richard M Gunn between 1914 and 1916. The building was reconstructed from an earlier structure by Thomson and Menzies dating back to 1898. Originally built as a tearoom with space for 847 people and a small cinema, it features an impressive Beaux Arts facade made of faience Carrara-ware.

The facade consists of five bays with one bay returning, where the end bays are advanced and framed by broad plain pilasters. The ground floor has been largely modernised. The first floor includes a thermal window with a metal balustrade above the former cinema entrance, along with square-headed keyblocked windows at the corner bays. The second and third floors are set within giant pilasters; the second-floor windows are square-headed with inset entablatures, while the third-floor windows are segment-headed and keyblocked, situated beneath a continuous frieze band. The fourth floor features pilastraded windows, inset at the corner bays, topped with a bold mutuled cornice that is massively bracketted on the front faces of the end bays. The fifth floor is set back, designed as a semi-eaves gallery with high relief ornamentation between the windows and a bold cornice between the corner bays, which rise higher into pavilion features with recessed Doric columns.

The interior was designed by John Ednie in the Louis XVI style but suffered fire damage in 1981, resulting in significant destruction.