St Mungo's Retreat, 52 Parson Street, Glasgow

St Mungo's Retreat is a Gothic residential building located at 52 Parson Street in Glasgow, designed by Osmund Cooke between 1890 and 1892. The structure has three storeys and an attic, featuring a rectangular plan. It is constructed from squared and coursed bull-faced rubble with ashlar dressings, including base and cill courses, a cornice, and a parapet. The building displays chamfered reveals, ashlar mullions, and transoms.

The south elevation consists of six asymmetrical bays. At the center, there is a pointed-arch doorway flanked by columns, complete with a hoodmould and a carved keystone corbel that was intended to support a statue. Above the doorway is a fanlight inscribed with "St Mungo's Retreat" in gilded lettering. The ground and second floors feature mainly paired bipartite windows that are mullioned and transomed. A hoodmoulded pointed arch is present on the first floor, with an oculus in each apex. To the outer right, there is a full-height canted bay with four bipartite lights on each floor and a polygonal piend roof topped with decorative finials. The parapet is indented, creating a frieze with square panels, each inset with variously carved ornate terracotta tiles. At the center of the roof, a gabled dormer features a pointed-arch bipartite window, supported by granite columns, with a small cartouche above in the apex, along with gabled skewputts and a foliate finial.

The east elevation is harled and previously adjoined another building that has since been demolished. A cross finial is present on the rear gable. The windows are plate-glass sash and case, with diamond lead-paned glass above the transoms. The roofs are covered with grey slate, featuring offset apex stacks that have neck bands detailed as parapets and pie-edge coping. Decorative terracotta ridge tiles are also present, along with original decorative gutter fittings.

The property includes a retaining wall, piers, a gate, and railings. The retaining walls are topped with ashlar coping, and the gatepiers are made of ashlar with gablet coping. Decorative cast-iron railings and gates complete the entrance.