Botanic Garden Garage, 24 Vinicombe Street, Glasgow

The Botanic Garden Garage, located at 24 Vinicombe Street in Glasgow, is a significant early public motor garage built between 1906 and 1912, designed by D V Wyllie. It features a distinctive two-storey, five-bay street elevation made of white and green faience in the Italian Romanesque style.

The Vinicombe Street elevation, constructed around 1911-12, is purpose-built with a steel and concrete frame. It has full-height, glazed, keystoned, arcaded central bays, separated by a narrow frieze that divides the floors. To the left, there is a two-leaf, 12-panel timber door with a rectangular fanlight and cornice. On the right, a wide corniced vehicular entrance is present, along with a base course, cornice, and low parapet. The first-floor openings are decorated with bands of green and white tiles.

The Vinicombe Lane elevation consists of a five-bay, two-storey and basement section from 1911-12 on the right. To the left, there is an earlier section from around 1906-10, which is two-storey and basement with three bays, made of brick and harled brick, featuring shaped gables and a glazed basement that is now boarded up. This section has a horizontal band of multi-pane glazing on the ground floor and semicircular keystoned windows on the top storey. A vehicular entrance is set at right angles to the rear and connects to a two-storey brick building at the back of Vinicombe Lane.

Behind the neighbouring tenements on Vinicombe Street, there are garage structures that were built around 1906, featuring a brick pitched roof.

Inside, the basement has a concrete floor, steel columns, and vaulted corrugated steel panels on the roof. The ground floor also has a concrete floor with some glazed white tiles on the walls, a mixture of column types, and a roof treatment similar to that of the basement, along with later fuel pumps. The first floor includes a ramp from the street for vehicular access, some glazed bricks set within the concrete floor, and a variety of roof treatments. There is a section behind the neighbouring tenements with a pitched roof and large rooflights, and another section with shaped gables supported by unusual steel roof trusses that spring from slender V-shaped supports. The faience section features square-section columns and a ceiling treatment similar to the basement.