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

Victoria Buildings, located at 4A West Regent Street and 4 Renfield Street in Glasgow, is a commercial building designed by J A Bell between 1858 and 1860 in the Scots Baronial/Flemish style. The structure features three storeys, a basement, and an attic, with modern shops occupying the ground floor on Renfield Street. The ground floor and basement on the west side have been partially altered, and the building consists of eight unequal bays constructed from coursed ashlar.

The elevation facing West Regent Street includes six bays of two-light windows with stone mullions and a continuous hoodmould featuring shaped heads. The ground floor has been partially altered, but there is a central canted window that is corbelled and rises through the first and second floors. The roof has four regularly spaced dormers and a crow-stepped gable in the central bay topped with a ball finial. The second and sixth bays from the west have corniced stacks with sculpted pediment details and sculpted panels below.

On the Renfield Street elevation, the first and second floors contain seven bays of single-light windows with continuous hoodmoulds and sculpted heads similar to those on the West Regent Street side. The attic features seven dormers with shaped pediments and relief sculpted tympana. An oriel window in the first bay from the south on the second floor is decoratively machicolated and corbelled, breaking through the cornice with a solid, shaped parapet that is also topped with ball finials. Above, the crow-stepped gable is pierced with an attic light, featuring a banded elliptical arch and a sculpted tympanum within a shaped pediment. The building has end and axial stacks, a corbelled crow-stepped gable with a corniced stack facing Bath Lane, and a geometrically patterned slate roof.