The Guild Hall, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55 Queen Street, Glasgow

David Barclay, 1900. 7-storey and basement, Baroque

office block. Red sandstone ashlar to frontage of 9

tripartite bays, and 3 bays to side; brick to rear and

further 9 bays each side. Modern shop fronts at ground,

retaining entrances of original closes; wider entrance

at centre, of polished granite pilasters with scrolled

capitals, and consoled lintel, with 2-leaf panelled

mahogany, arched doors and tripartite inner door;

entrances in flanking bays similar with scrolled

capitals to pilasters, supporting advanced section of

continuous ground floor cornice. Elaborate and varied

carved detail between floors. Windows divided by

pilasters. Bowed tripartite bays form 1st to 5th floors

in centre and outer bays. Moulded cill courses.

Pedimented centre light to 6th floor windows; centre

bay capped by gabled, broken pediment with cartouche,

and outer bowed bays with broken segmental pediments.

Intermediate windows with consoled pediments to centre

lights of each 2nd floor window; 2 decoratively corbelled

aedicules on 3rd and 7th bays at 4th floor. Urn finials

to dies between bays, above eaves.

SIDE ELEVATIONS: Simply detailed. Stepped stair windows

to 2 end bays to W of N side.

REAR ELEVATION: 10-bay.

Plate-glass glazing pattern to casement (?) windows.

Decorative steel railings to basements at side.

INTERIOR: white walled atrium at entre.