Former Police Station, 6 Allison Place, Glasgow

The building comprises a former police station and fire station, constructed between 1896 and 1897 by Alexander Beith McDonald, City Engineer for Glasgow. The buildings were originally designed as a police station, facing east along Craigie Street and south along Allison Place, and as a fire station, facing north along Allison Street. They are built in a Scots Baronial style, characterised by a broken eaves line with pediments and crow-stepped gables. The construction is of stugged and snecked ashlar stone with polished dressings, and slate roofs. A communal courtyard garden is located to the rear. The fire station was converted into residential flats around 1990, and the police station into flats in 1994.

The former police station is three storeys high. The Craigie Street elevation is roughly symmetrical, with a crow-stepped three-bay centre (featuring an inner door with bays corbelled out above ground floor level), flanked by two bays to the right and four bays to the left. The terminal bays are also crow-stepped. It features single/mullioned windows with small-paned upper sashes. A city crest is positioned above 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 at ground floor level (two of which have been infilled to create windows). Band courses are present below the first and second floor levels, and there is a bracketed chimneystack between the second and third bays. A city crest is in the gable apex of the third bay.

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