University Union, 14-42 University Avenue, Glasgow

Alan McNaughton of Arthur & McNaughton, 1929-31. 3-storey over basement, 13-bay Free Baronial students' union building, symmetrically arranged with drum towers flanking entrance bay and corbelled balcony at 2nd floor. Ashlar, bull-faced at basement, stugged walling with polished ashlar margins and quoins.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: 2-storey drum towers flank advanced centre bay with crowstep gable and recessed tall arched mullioned and transomed window (some stained glass) rising through 1st and 2nd floors. Polished ashlar balcony (now stonecleaned) links towers over ground floor. Below, wide flight of steps to recessed doorpiece with slit windows and roll-moulded architrave. Windows transomed and/or mullioned, with strapwork pediments at towers. Small angle turrets corbelled out at 1st floor level. String-course over basement. Corbelled stone balcony at 2nd floor, with solid parapet, runs from drum towers to angle turrets. 2-bay elevation to West with canted projecting bays corbelled over ground floor, with small rectangular windows.

Small-pane leaded lights to metal pivot (vertical and horizontal) windows. M-shaped slate roofs, crowstep gables with scroll skewstone; tall axial stacks.

INTERIOR (seen 2010): numerous original details including: decorative timber fireplaces; panelled walls; parquet flooring; decorative plaster cornices; wrought-iron balusters. Imperial staircase; pilastered 1st floor stairhall; columned dining room; shallow vaulted roofs to Billiard Hall and galleried Debating Chamber.

BOUNDARY WALLS, ENTRANCE PIERS, LAMP STANDARDS AND STEPS: Low stugged ashlar wall (stepped down slope) to basement; entrance steps with parapet and piers supporting pair of decorative wrought-iron lamp standards.