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

The Guild Hall, located at 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, and 55 Queen Street in Glasgow, is a seven-storey office block built in 1900 by David Barclay, designed in a Baroque style. The building features a red sandstone ashlar facade with nine tripartite bays on the front and three bays on each side, while the rear is constructed of brick with an additional nine bays on each side. The ground floor has modern shop fronts but retains the entrances of the original closes.

The central entrance is notable for its polished granite pilasters with scrolled capitals and a consoled lintel, leading to two-leaf panelled mahogany arched doors and a tripartite inner door. The flanking entrances mirror this design, with scrolled capitals on the pilasters that support an advanced section of the continuous ground floor cornice. The building showcases elaborate and varied carved details between the floors, with windows separated by pilasters.

From the first to the fifth floors, the central and outer bays feature bowed tripartite windows, and there are moulded cill courses. The sixth floor windows have pedimented centre lights, with the central bay topped by a gabled, broken pediment adorned with a cartouche, while the outer bowed bays are capped with broken segmental pediments. The second-floor windows have intermediate windows with consoled pediments for their centre lights, and two decoratively corbelled aedicules are present on the third and seventh bays at the fourth floor. Urn finials are placed on the dies between the bays, above the eaves.

The side elevations are simply detailed, with stepped stair windows in the two end bays on the north side. The rear elevation consists of ten bays and features a plate-glass glazing pattern on the casement windows. Decorative steel railings are present at the basements on the sides. Inside, there is a white-walled atrium at the entrance.