69, 71 Queen Street, Glasgow

George S Kenneth, 1899. 7-storey warehouse, 4 irregular

bays, offices and shops with classical details. Opening

to Springfield Court (now demolished) to S. Polished

granite shop front at ground, with cornice and entrances

left of centre and to outer right; 2-leaf panelled

doors. Red sandstone ashlar above ground. Paired windows

at centre, tripartite outer bays, that to left canted at

corner. Simplified Gibbsian blocks to 1st floor windows;

balustraded balcony across 2nd floor. Pilastered

mullions to tripartites at 3rd and 6th floors, with

attached columns to those of 4th and 5th floors, and to

centre windows of 5th floors; boldly corbelled cills to

3rd floor tripartites. Modillion cornice to 4th floor

and consoled main cornice with parapet, and urn

finialled dies. Carved detail below cills of 4th floor

paired windows and billet moulded cills to 6th floor

windows, above swagged ornament. Armorials at centre to

2nd and 3rd floors, one heraldic and the other

initialled. Swan-neck pediment to centre light of canted

bay at parapet.

Return elevation with 2 bays of paired windows; chamfered

angle to W, with door at ground; currently under

alteration to left (1988).

Rear elevation in brick, with stepped and paired stair

windows at centre with metal fire escape.