117 Greenhead Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Tenement.

117 Greenhead Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
frozen-remnant-storm
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 March 1981
Type
Tenement
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

  1. Classically-detailed 4-storey, 16-bay tenement in prominent position overlooking Glasgow Green with canted angle at single bay corner elevation. Polished yellow ashlar, channelled at ground W, with ashlar dressings. Band course over ground floor, cill course at 1st and 3rd floors, eaves lintel course, cornice and balustraded parapet punctuated by broad wallhead stacks. Architraved windows above ground floor, those to 1st and 2nd floors corniced and those to 2nd floor bracketed. Stone mullions.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: principal elevation to Greenhead Street (W) with doors at bays 3, 8, 12 and 15. Variety of single and bipartite windows aligned vertically, and blocked above ground at bays 3 and 8. 4 symmetrically placed wallhead stacks linking parapet with fireclay balusters. Single window to each floor of canted bay at NW corner and 7 similarly detailed single window bays (blocked above ground at bays 6 and 7) to Tullis Street.

Largely 4-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Grey slate. Corniced ashlar wallhead stacks with full-complement of cans. Dwarf wall at principal elevation with cast iron railings.

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