196, 198 West George Street, Glasgow

This building, located at 196 and 198 West George Street in Glasgow, dates from around 1830 and is likely a pair of classical houses that have been converted into offices. It is two stories high with a basement and features a five-by-five bay layout. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar stone, with a droved ashlar return and rear elevation, and has channelled voussoirs at the ground floor.

The basement is blind, while the ground floor has recessed windows set within an arcade, complete with moulded cills and plain aprons. A central Roman Ionic portico is positioned at the top of stone steps that oversail the basement on West George Street, featuring a dentil cornice. The doorpiece, which is Ionic pilastered and arched, has been altered to a window in the central bay facing Wellington Street.

On the first floor, there is a cill band, and the windows are consoled and corniced, with pediments above the entry on each elevation. The building has a plain entablature, a dentil band, and an eaves cornice with a blocking course. A panelled scrolled, corniced wallhead stack with a fluted pot is present on West George Street, along with two symmetrical corniced wallhead stacks on Wellington Street.

The rear elevation features some 12-pane glazing, and there is a corniced ashlar boundary wall with panels to the north in Wellington Street, which returns to West Regent Lane.