Scottish Widows, 50 Renfield Street, Glasgow

David Bryce (Edinburgh), 1868-9 for Junior Conservative Club; reconstructed internally Peddie and Kinnear 1871 for Scottish

Widows' Fund, alterations (balconies removed etc) and top

floor added 1958 by Walter, Underwood. 3-storey classical

commercial building with later attic. 5 x 9 bays. Polished

ashlar banded vermiculated rustication and voussoirs, droved

ashlar rear elevation. Modern shops in 4th to 9th bays from S

in Renfield Street; basement at West George Street with steps oversailing to entries; wide recessed basement windows;

windows mainly sash and case, plate glass; 3 sub-basement

windows with dwarf architraves in S bays to Renfield Street.

Ground floor windows on moulded corbelled cills; pilastered

entrance at No 112 and 114 West George Street. Glazed,

pilastraded, arched ground floor, blind above transomes;

sculpted heads on keyblocks.

5 x 3-bay corner section: ground floor dentil cornice; 1st

floor balustrade with panelled piers at each window; all 1st

floor windows aediculed with semi-engaged Corinthian columns, shell-motifs in tympana; alternate segmental and triangular

pediments. 2nd floor windows lugged architraves, corbelled

moulded cills; richly sculpted eaves frieze; dentil band;

projecting cornice; later attic. Detailing continues 1 bay

into West Regent Lane at N bay in Renfield Street.