Printing Works, 50 Darnley Street, 48, Glasgow

D B Dobson (John Gordon and D B Dobson); dated 1902.

Commercial building with 3-storey red ashlar front

(brick flanks). Modern movement. 4-light splayed bay to

right corbelled with angle over ground floor. Stepped

crenellated parapet with figure of Minerva. Corbelled

3-light bow to left with carved figure above 1st floor.

Top floor windows rise into roof. 2 first floor windows

over entrance. Elliptical arched and keyblocked entry

grouped under a sinuous cornice with a pair of smaller

entrances. The large double doors have oculi and art

nouveau detail to handle and lock plates. Unusual detail

to rainwater goods, griffin connecting rhones to right.

Exceptionally fine 1st floor interiors with coloured

stained-glass by W G Morton, figure mosaics, ironwork,

lamp fittings with holly, dolphin and mistletoe details,

original embossed finger-plates with sinuous door

handles, and other original fittings. Fluted columns with

free Ionic capitals, marble wall slabs and panelled

walls etc.