136-148 (Even) Queen Street, Glasgow

This is a seven-storey commercial building located at 136-148 (Even) Queen Street in Glasgow, designed by James Miller around 1904-1905. The building is constructed from ashlar sandstone and features modern shop fronts at the ground level, while the glazing of the original public house has been retained.

The Queen Street elevation is symmetrical with nine bays, including wide tripartite outer bays. The main entrance bay has a grey granite surround that rises to the second-floor cills, flanked by stylised pilasters adorned with oval panels and a cornice. There is a keystone above the entrance, which includes a grille for the fanlight and internal steps. To the right of the entrance, lead-paned windows of the public house feature stained glass crests and borders. A pend is located at the outer right. The second floor has balconied aedicules above the third and seventh windows, as well as the centre lights of the tripartites in the outer bays. A consoled balcony on the fourth floor is supported by giant order attached Doric columns that extend through the fourth and fifth floors, bearing an entablature. The sixth floor has a continuous row of regularly spaced windows at the centre, topped with a cornice and blocking course. The outer bays feature corbelled parapet balconies at the fourth floor, and the eaves above the sixth floor are broken with a deep cornice and parapet, marked at the centre by swagged panels.

The George Square elevation has four bays, with details similar to those on the Queen Street elevation above the ground floor. However, it features bipartite outer bays and aediculed single windows at the second floor. The centre has two sixth-floor bays that are slightly recessed and bipartite, set beneath two open keystoned arches that bridge the parapets of the outer bays.

The building includes a mixture of sash and case windows with plate-glass lower sashes and six-pane uppers, as well as quartered casement windows with small panes in the upper half.