Western Telephone Exchange, 24 Highburgh Road, Glasgow

Leonard Stokes. London, architect, with Colin Menzies,

Glasgow; 1907. Symmetrical modern movement telephone exchange

3 storeys. Polychrome ashlar building using cream sandstone

for ground floor, recessed banded pilasters at angles (from

1st floor) and most dressings and margins. Red sandstone used

in bands with cream between 1st and 2nd floor windows; strips

of red stone divide windows and flank canted windows.

Elevation to Highburgh Road; 6-bay with single windows

flanking central doorpiece with double-leaf doors and glazed

fanlight. Above door, paired canted 3-light oriels rise from

1st through 2 storeys. Caledon Street elevation 9-bay with

paired canted oriels at penultimate bays. To extreme right at

ground; arched doorpiece with bold keystone, double-leaf

panelled door, glazed fanlight. All window paired except at

extreme left bay of Celedon Street elevation, panel frieze

over 1st and 2nd. Heavy bracketted cornice, deep plain

parapet wall-head stacks linked by arcade over canted bays.

Stugged ashlar flank to W. Rendered rear. Brick addition to

N W.

Low coped ashlar wall with cast-iron railings to main

elevations.