The Pentagon Centre, 30-46 Washington Street, Glasgow

A Gardner, 1897, H E Clifford, 1907. Massive 5-storey and

attic warehouse, 13 main bays, 3 additional S bays; 12 return

N bays (brick with stone dressings to latter, Renaissance

style. Locharbriggs stone front, rubble plinth, ashlar ground

and also for pilastered frames 1st-3rd floors, with rubble

recessed faces. Various alterations to round-arched ground

floor entrances. 1st and 2nd floor windows in margins and

with cornice linked vertically, 3rd floor with cill band, all

under giant pilastered arches; centre bay wider with

pilasters rising into 4th floor and tall central canted

window, outer windows of central bay detailed as in flanking

bays. Key-blocked bull's eye windows in 4th floor. Main

cornice and parapet. (now mutilated). Office block in 3 S

bays, 4 storeys, 2 wide arched openings flank central cavetto

moulded entrance recess with pilastered and corniced door,

balcony above to 3-storey canted window; die parapet.

Remaining elevations in brick, bold arched bays at N.