7 James Street, Glasgow

James Thomson (of Baird and Thomson), dated 1893, converted 2000 -06. Single storey with attic breaking wallhead, 4-bay, L-plan Scottish Renaissance former Logan & Johnstone School of Domestic Economy now converted to residential accommodation, with 2-stage, square entrance tower off-centre to James Street and 2-storey gables linked by single storey ranges to Greenside Street. Red Ballochmyle squared and snecked tooled stone with ashlar margins. Chamfered base course, cill course at ground, moulded eaves course; crowstepped gables. Corbelled stacks, hoodmould with label stops; segmental-arched doorpiece and windows; roll-moulded and chamfered arrises, raked cills and stone mullions.

S (JAMES STREET) ELEVATION: slightly advanced, off centre entrance tower with shallow arched and moulded surrounds to door and flanking sidelights, all under hoodmould with decorative label stops, 4-light canted oriel window and stop-chamfered corners at 2nd stage giving way to entablature with inscription 'LOGAN AND JOHNSTON SCHOOL OF DOMESTIC ECONOMY' and moulded parapet wallhead above. Bays to left of tower comprise square headed openings at ground, 1st floor with 2 small shallow arched openings under continuous hoodmould and dormer window breaking eaves into semicircular pediment at outer left; bay to right with 3 widely-spaced narrow lights at ground and gableted dormer breaking eaves to centre above.

W (GREENSIDE STREET) ELEVATION: 2-storey, 2 bay crowstepped gables connected by 2 bay single storey range and further 2 bay, single storey range to left. Each gable with canted bay at ground, plaque at 1st floor flanked by square headed windows with continuous hoodmoulding, moulded string course at base of finial stack; beehive sculpture and inscription 'INSTITUTED 1890' to left gable plaque, decorative carving '1893' to right gable plaque. Square headed bipartite windows with stone mullion and transom to central range, round arched, blind arcading to cornice. Square headed, bipartite windows breaking eaves, with stone mullions and transoms to left range.

Non-traditional windows. Slate roofs. Paired, square/diamond-aligned end and ridge stacks; 2-stage octagonal finial stack, corbelled out to base, to Greenside Street gables.

GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: red ashlar gatepiers and low boundary walls with chamfered cope; decorative cast-iron gates and railings.