Western Telephone Exchange, 24 Highburgh Road, Glasgow

The Western Telephone Exchange, located at 24 Highburgh Road in Glasgow, was designed by architect Leonard Stokes in collaboration with Colin Menzies and completed in 1907. This symmetrical, modern movement telephone exchange is a three-storey building constructed from polychrome ashlar. The ground floor features cream sandstone, while the first and second floors are accented with red sandstone bands, with cream stone used in between the windows. The design includes recessed banded pilasters at the corners and strips of red stone that separate and flank the canted windows.

The Highburgh Road elevation consists of six bays, with single windows on either side of a central entrance that features double-leaf doors and a glazed fanlight above. Paired canted three-light oriel windows extend from the first to the second storey above the entrance. The Caledon Street elevation has nine bays, with paired canted oriels located at the penultimate bays. To the far right on the ground floor, there is an arched doorpiece with a bold keystone, double-leaf panelled doors, and a glazed fanlight. Most windows are paired, except for the extreme left bay of the Caledon Street elevation, which has a panel frieze above the first and second floors. The building is topped with a heavy bracketed cornice and a deep plain parapet wall, with stacks linked by an arcade over the canted bays.

The western flank of the building is finished in stugged ashlar, while the rear is rendered. There is also a brick addition to the northwest. The main elevations are enclosed by a low coped ashlar wall with cast-iron railings.