Greenhead Works, Greenhead Street, Glasgow

The North West Range of Greenhead Works, located on Greenhead Street in Glasgow, dates from around 1840, with additions made in 1872-3 and a link built in 1886 by George Fyfe Boyd. This large industrial building features an unusual design that resembles a domestic tenement, particularly on the later elevations facing Greenhead Street, and is situated on a prominent corner site overlooking Glasgow Green.

The structure consists of three ranges along Greenhead Street. To the north is a four-storey, five-bay block, while to the south, at the corner, is a tall three-storey, three-bay block, both topped with balustraded wallheads. Between these two blocks is a roofless single-storey, seven-bay link that has been without a roof since 2010. The McPhail Street elevation features a three-storey and attic, fourteen-bay section that adjoins a later four-storey building to the east.

The Greenhead Street elevations are constructed from sandstone ashlar, with a channelled ground floor, a base course, a cornice at the ground floor, and an eaves cornice. They include voussoired semicircular-arched openings in the single-storey link, along with a pilastered and corniced doorpiece, architraved windows, cornices, consoles, stone mullions, and bracketed cills. The McPhail Street elevation is made of polychrome red brick, featuring an ashlar base course, brick lintel bands, and a mutule eaves cornice, with contrasting cream brick dressings and ashlar cills.

The Greenhead Street elevations display symmetrical outer ranges, with the left range featuring a central door flanked by single windows and outer bipartite windows, and regular fenestration above. The right range has a central window with flanking bipartites on each floor. The single-storey link has outer doors, one of which has been converted from a window, flanking single windows. The McPhail Street ranges include three bays of ashlar on the left, with a central door and flanking window, and regular fenestration above. The red brick range is regularly fenestrated and features a vehicular entrance across two bays at the outer right, along with a semicircular stair tower at the rear.

The building has replacement windows with a four-pane glazing pattern, a grey slate roof, and features both ashlar and polychrome brick chimney stacks.