Tannery Buildings, 46, 48 St Andrew's Square, Glasgow

1876-1877. Former tannery and leather warehouse building

in Italiante style, built for John Inglis and Co.

Rectangular symmetrical 5-storey and basement building

with 5-bay elevations to St Andrews Square and Turnbull

Street, 9-bay rear elevation. Polished ashlar, painted

to ground, red and white brick rear.

ST ANDREWS SQUARE ELEVATION: Main entrance to right,

pilastered elaborately consoled hood-cornice with balcony

over, doorway round-arched with decorative keystone and

fanlight. To left, depressed arch pend entrance with

bull's head keystone. Shopfront with slender pilastrade

interspersed with thicker pilasters.

Above ground all windows bipartite, to 1st stilted arched

with continuous archivolt and pilaster mullions.

Shouldered to 2nd within architraves. Plain architraved

bipartites to 3rd. All sash and case windows with plate-

glass glazing.

Dentil cornice over ground, cill band to 1st and 2nd,

eaves band, bracketted cornice, deep plain parapet with

intermediate die piers. At angles, raised piers with

pediment detail.

TURNBULL STREET ELEVATION: details as main elevation,

shop front to ground.

REAR ELEVATION; 9-bay with single light windows, mostly

4-pane sashes. To centre bay, larger openings, now

bricked-up, formerly hoist doors.