Old Toll Bar, 3 Paisley Road West, Glasgow

The Old Toll Bar, located at 3 Paisley Road West in Glasgow, dates from around 1860, with the public house section added in 1892. This three-storey, five-by-six-bay corner tenement has a square plan and features a simple Classical design. The building includes a string course, cornice, and parapet. Windows have raised margins, with architraved and corniced windows on the first floor. Access to the flats on Admiral Street is through a slightly recessed doorway that has four steps leading up to it. The public house has three entrance doors, each with two-leaf timber-panelled doors and deep plain fanlights.

The windows are primarily timber sash and case, with some featuring 10-pane lying-pane glazing, while the public house has non-traditional plate glass. The building is topped with a slate roof and has ashlar wallhead and ridge stacks, although some stacks are missing.

Inside, the Old Toll Bar boasts an elaborate 'palace pub' interior. The lobbies feature etched and richly painted glazed inner doors adorned with cherub heads, foliage, and other Classical motifs. The timber boarded and panelled walls include foliate carved inset panels up to dado height, with decorative panelling above the dado and a dentilled cornice. A wooden arcade supported by slender columns runs along the west side and rear walls, as well as over window recesses. Decorative dentilled springing points are present on the arches of the front and west side walls. The walls above the arcade and between the arches are finished with Lincrusta. Timber Ionic pilasters flank the lobbies, leading to an architraved and pedimented doorway to the rear offices. The ceiling is timber-boarded and compartmented, featuring an egg and dart plaster cornice. The pub includes four large advertisement mirrors, painted and gilded by Forrest and Son of Glasgow. The bar counter is long, curved, and deeply moulded, with quasi-consoles, and is supported by cast-iron columns at each end. The richly carved gantry reaches ceiling height, featuring a deeply moulded architrave, eight spirit casks, a central clock, and a gilded eagle set in an ornate broken pediment.