City Of Glasgow Grain Mills And Stores, 24-26 Speirs Wharf, Port Dundas, Glasgow

The City of Glasgow Grain Mills and Stores, built around 1851 and later converted into flats in 1991, consists of two distinct architectural sections.

The southern section was originally five stories tall and featured 31 windows, later extended to 37 windows. The 13th to 19th bays were raised to six stories, all maintaining a uniform design. The canal-facing elevation showcases distinctive chevron tooling, a belt course at the first floor, and margined openings. Loading doors are integrated vertically at all levels within tall margined recesses, adorned with stone-bracketed open pediment hoods at the 10th, 16th, 24th, 28th, and 34th bays, with the 16th bay serving as the central bay of the seven-bay five-story section. The sixth bay features a segmentally arched loading door, while a semi-elliptical loading door is located at the 21st bay (No 206). The ground floor has been altered between the 30th and 34th bays. The southern end has a double-pile design with a piended roof and four windows wide. The southern elevation extends onto the rear elevation on Craighall Road, comprising 11 bays with four stories above pavement level and two loading bays. The central section is single-pile at the upper levels, with single-storey outbuildings along Craighall Road, later expanding to a double pile at the northern end. This section features segmentally arched windows, with five bays at three stories and seven bays at four stories, all constructed in red brick with white brick dressings and a dentilled cornice. The roofs are slated with fire-break gables, and the interiors have been replaced with concrete at lower levels.

The northern section, dated 1861 at the pediment, is a six-story building with a basement, featuring a droved ashlar façade with 16 windows and a band course between the third and fourth floor windows. The segment-headed windows are present on all floors except the top, and there is an open-based pediment at the sixth and seventh bays. Original wheel anchor plates can be found at the ground, first, and second floors. This section has a deepened plan extending to Craighall Road, and later additions include a four-story basement with a ten-window red brick elevation, topped by a single-storey lean-to with paired windows that leads to a two-storey outshot with arched windows at the southern end. The internal structure is unusual, featuring a three-aisle plan supported by longitudinal jack arches on stocky cast-iron columns, with timber floors above these columns.