183, 185, 187, 189, 191 Hope Street, Glasgow

This building, located at 183, 185, 187, 189, and 191 Hope Street in Glasgow, is a mid-19th century house that was remodeled and altered into offices, tearooms, and a restaurant by James Salmon (Salmon, Son and Gillespie) in 1903. It features four storeys, an attic, and a basement, rising to a full ground floor with modern shops along Hope Street. The facade consists of three ten bays, with the second bay from the north on Hope Street being blind at the ground and first floors.

The building has a continuous eaves lintel course and keystoned above single windows, along with a mutule cornice. The mansard slate roof is complemented by axial and end stacks. On the west elevation facing Regent Street, there are two outer canted bays with deep, independent mutule cornices flanking a central segmental pedimented Corinthian portico with steps leading up to it. The windows are casement style with geometric glazing bars, and the basement is glazed with metal friezes on each floor. The ground floor features Corinthian mullioned arched windows, while the second floor has windows that are corbelled at the center and arched on Corinthian colonettes. The third floor contains four-light casements set in architraves. The central bay has a first-floor window that is consoled and corniced, with an elliptically headed second-floor window and round-headed attic windows on the third floor.

On the elevation facing Hope Street, there is a ground floor cill band, and the ground, first, and second floor windows are consoled and corniced, with sash and case style. The third floor has a moulded cill band and a corniced and scrolled wallhead stack. The rear elevation facing West Regent Lane features three bays of two and one-light sash and case windows, made of droved ashlar, along with wrought-iron railings and lamp standards. Inside, the building includes cast-iron balusters and carved newels.