East Range, Cleansing Department Depot, Bell Street, Glasgow

The North Range of the Cleansing Department Depot, located at 144 Bell Street in Glasgow, was designed by A W Wheatley and built between 1896 and 1898. This predominantly four-storey building features a rectangular plan with nine bays by thirteen bays and advanced outer bays. It is arranged around an internal courtyard and occupies a corner site in the city center. The south elevation includes an attic storey with three-bay returns on the west and east elevations.

The building is clad in red sandstone over brick, with ashlar stone at the ground floor and coursed rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings on the upper floors. The south elevation displays red brick with white brick cill courses and lintels. Architectural details include a base course and string course at the ground floor, a banded lintel course at the first and second floors, and a cill course at the third floor, which is also adorned with a cornice and blocking course. The ground floor features predominantly shallow-arched and keystoned openings, while the upper floors have flat-arched window openings with chamfered surrounds and long and short raised dressings. The windows on the first and second floors of the advanced outer bays are set within tall round-arched keystoned recessed panels.

On the northeast elevation facing Bell Street, there is a flat-arched pend opening with cast iron gates at the center, and an entrance to the left of the pend. The northwest elevation on Watson Street includes a corbelled truncated stack to the left. The southwest elevation has first, second, and third floor windows set within shallow-arched recessed panels, featuring arch detailing in white brick. There is also a later rectangular dormer that breaks the eaves, positioned off-center to the right.

The building predominantly has three-pane hopper windows over two-pane casement windows in timber frames, with some openings blocked. The roof is piended and covered with grey slates, and painted steel boxed ridge vents are present on the south elevation. The interior, as seen in 1993, features floors supported by riveted girders on cast-iron columns.