Victoria Buildings, 4A West Regent Street, 4 , Glasgow

J A Bell (Edinburgh), 1858-60. Scots Baronial/Flemish style

commercial building. 3 storeys, basement and attic; modern

shops to ground floor at Renfield Street; ground floor and

basement partially altered at W; 8 x 7 unequal bays. Coursed

ashlar. Elliptically arched entry to No 4 West Regent Street

with cable moulding and outer architrave.

ELEVATION TO WEST REGENT STREET: 6 bays of 2-light windows

with stone mullions, continuous hoodmould with shaped heads;

partially altered ground floor with windows; central canted

window corbelled and rising through 1st and 2nd floors; 4

regulary spaced dormers; crow-stepped gable in central bay

with ball finial; 2nd and 6th bay from W corniced stacks with

sculpted pediment details and sculpted panels below.

ELEVATION TO RENFIELD STREET: 1st and 2nd floors, 7 bays of

single lights, continuous hoodmoulds, sculpted heads at West

Regent Street. Attic with 7 dormers with shaped pediments and

relief sculpted tympana. Oriel window in 1st bay from S, 2nd

floor decoratively machicolated and corbelled, breaking

through cornice with solid, shaped parapet surmounted by ball

finials; crow-stepped gable above pierced with attic light

with banded, elliptical arch above and sculpted tympanum in

shaped pediment. End and axial stacks. Corbelled crow-stepped

gable with corniced stack to Bath Lane. Geometrically

patterned slate roof.