220 St Vincent Street, 218, Glasgow

206 St Vincent Street in Glasgow is a Greek Revival terrace block built around 1830-1835, which has been altered for commercial use. The building is three stories tall with a basement and features a partially modified design of three-bay houses flanking a four-bay central house. The ends and the center of the block are raised and advanced, creating a total of 22 bays arranged in the pattern of 3-3-3-4-3-3-3. The exterior is constructed of ashlar stone, with a channelled finish at the ground floor.

Notable architectural features include Greek Ionic doorpieces at Nos 218, 220, and 226, and a consoled, corniced, architraved entrance at No 206, with each entry situated at the top of steps that oversail the basement area. The windows are sash and case style within architraves, with some featuring 12-pane glazing, while others on the ground and first floors have been altered to casements. At No 218, the ground floor windows are set in lugged architraves that extend below the cill with panelled aprons; the first-floor windows are ramped, consoled, and corniced, and the third-floor windows have dropped architraves. The building has an eaves cornice and a balustraded die parapet.

No 218 was remodeled by Sir J J Burnet in 1899, which included the insertion of small-pane casements at the ground and first floors and the alteration of the first-floor balcony to a solid structure. There is a five-bay eastern return to West Campbell Street with a six-bay addition in the same style from 1926. The second bay from the south is blind at the first and second floors and replicates the main elevation detailing with corbelled cills at the first floor.

The elevation facing Blythswood Street mirrors the detailing of West Campbell Street in five bays, with the first two bays from the south being blind. It features paired corniced wallhead stacks that break through the parapet.

The interior of No 218 includes a Greek Revival chimneypiece in the vestibule, a columned hall screen, and a cast-iron baluster staircase leading to a domed stairwell with elaborate plasterwork. The first-floor rooms have ribbed and coffered ceilings, and there is a panelled library with a carved chimneypiece.