Salon Cinema, 17 Vinicombe Street, Glasgow

The Salon Cinema, located at 17 Vinicombe Street in Glasgow, was built in 1913 by Brand and Lithgow and underwent alterations in 1931 by James McKissack and in 1940 by Burnet and Boston. It was converted into the Salon restaurant in 2007. This building is one of Glasgow's earliest suburban cinemas, notable for its rare Hennebique Ferro concrete construction. The former Hillhead Picture Salon is designed in a classical style and features exceptionally fine neo-Rococo plasterwork both on the exterior and interior.

The building is a tall single storey with a raised basement, designed in a rectangular plan with a flat roof and seven bays arranged in a 1-5-1 grouping. It sits on a corner site and has a domed entrance bay adorned with plasterwork swag details and lion heads above a later canopy added in 2007. The façade includes a base course and plinth, a string course, a plain eaves entablature, a cornice, and a blocking course raised to the parapet at the end sections, which are flanked by railings.

The principal north elevation faces Vinicombe Street and features broad advanced outer bays, with the right bay containing a door and the central bays showcasing architraved panels. The five-bay elevation on Cranworth Street has doors at the raised basement level and is complemented by a low ashlar boundary wall with decorative cast-iron railings that are consistent in design with the Western Baths to the south, also reflected in the cornice.

Inside, the building has been converted for restaurant use, but it retains very fine interior plasterwork, particularly in the vaulted, ribbed ceiling, which includes a variety of floreate mouldings, Green Man heads, guilloche, egg and dart, and cartouche detailing. The balcony has been partitioned and extended along the sides with metalwork and glass. The former proscenium area to the east also serves as a balcony, with flanking steps leading down to the basement entrances, which still feature two-leaf panelled timber doors with decorative glazed panels and an elaborate plasterwork pediment with a lyre.