134, 136 West George Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 May 1975. Commercial building. 4 related planning applications.

134, 136 West George Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
seventh-panel-woodpecker
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 May 1975
Type
Commercial building
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

134 and 136 West George Street in Glasgow is a classical commercial building designed by John Burnet Snr in 1867. It stands three stories high with a basement. The ground floor was modified by James Thomson in 1898.

The exterior features polished ashlar stone, with a channelled design at the ground floor. The building has five by seven bays, with the first return bay from the south on Renfield Street being blind on the first and second floors. The ground floor has a later granite pilastrade with stone pedestals and corniced die walls, along with casement windows that include geometric glazing bars. There are two symmetrical projecting Ionic porticos with parapets above the steps that lead down to the basement on West George Street. The upper floors primarily have sash and case windows set within architraves, with a cill band on the first floor and another on the second floor. The eaves feature an entablature with advanced paterae and a rosette frieze, topped by a mutule cornice. The building is crowned with a balustraded parapet that has panelled piers and a corniced wallhead stack facing Renfield Street.

Inside, there is a banking hall with anta columns and a coffered, corniced ceiling.

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