Glass Warehouse, 118-128 Howard Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Warehouse.

Glass Warehouse, 118-128 Howard Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
secret-tracery-honey
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
Warehouse
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

J Gibb Morton (Beattie and Morton), 1903. Symmetrical 5-storey and attic, 5-bay, Art Nouveau warehouse; red sandstone ashlar, painted at ground and with base course; harled on now exposed E gable, Doorway at centre flanked by large shop windows and with further doorway in outer bays, both marked by mannered, bracketted and corniced hood-niches.

Centre bay in upper floors flanked by moulded pilaster strips, chamfered at 1st floor and with recessed elongated battered strips at 2nd and 3rd floors, recessed divisions progressively deeper above corbel at 2nd floor; stone mullioned bipartites to each bay at 1st and 2nd floors and to 3rd floor of centre bay. Centre bay bowed from corbelled cill at 2nd floor, and with bowed parapet at attic level.

Segmentally arched timber mullioned tripartite windows flanking centre bay at 3rd floor, with bracketted convex cills and keystones swept up into roll-moulded eaves course; carved corbels linking segmental lintels. Small bipartite attic windows with "bobbin" columns jambs. Swept eaves to mansard roof above. Plate-glass glazing to casement

windows, with small-pane lights to 3rd floor and attic windows.

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