Former Police Station, 6 Allison Place, Glasgow

Built in 1896-7 (1896 datestone) by Alexander Beith McDonald, City Engineer for Glasgow, as a police station (facing east along Craigie Street and facing south along Allison Place) and fire station (facing north along Allison Street). The buildings are designed in a Scots Baronial style, with the eaves line broken by pediments and crow stepped gables. It is constructed of stugged and snecked ashlar stone with polished dressings with slate roofs. There is a communal courtyard garden to the rear of the former fire and police station buildings. The fire station was converted to residential flats in around 1990, the police station converted to flats in 1994.

The former police station is three-storeys in height. The Craigie Street elevation is roughly symmetrical with a crowstepped three-bay centre (inner door, flanking bays corbelled out above ground floor) with two bays to the right and four bays to left. The terminal bays are also crow-stepped. Single/mullioned windows, glazing with small-paned upper sashes. There is a city crest over the former main entrance. The Allison Place elevation is seven bays wide with a large, chamfered corner bay.

The former fire station is four storeys high and four bays wide with arched openings to the ground floor (two fire engine openings have been infilled to form windows). There are band courses below the first and second floor levels and a bracketed chimneystack between the second and third bays. A city crest is in the gable apex of the third bay.

Built around 1938 by Thomas Somers, City Engineer, the three-storey, corner range attached to the east elevation of the former fire station was built as additional accommodation for the fire station's crew. It is three bays wide to Allison Street and four bays wide to Craigie Street. The building is of stugged sandstone block to the ground floor with ashlar quoins and margins and a raised band course between the ground and first floors, and of red brick construction above with wallhead chimneystacks over blank strips of walling. The Allison Street elevation has a recessed arch in the leftmost bay.