7 James Street, Glasgow

This is a former school building, constructed in 1893 to a design by James Thomson of Baird and Thomson, and later converted to residential use in 2000. It originally served as the Logan & Johnstone School of Domestic Economy. The building is an example of Scottish Renaissance style, with a single storey and an attic breaking the wallhead, arranged in an L-shape across James Street and Greenside Street.

The building is predominantly red Ballochmyle stone, with squared and snecked tooling, and ashlar margins. A chamfered base course runs around the building, with a cill course at ground level and a moulded eaves course. The gables are crowstepped. Cornices are detailed with corbelled stacks, and windows have hoodmoulds with decorative label stops. Roll-moulded and chamfered arrises, raked cills and stone mullions are further features.

The south-facing elevation has a slightly projecting, off-centre entrance tower. The tower has a shallow arched doorpiece with moulded surrounds, flanked by sidelights, all under a hoodmould. A two-stage canted oriel window sits above, with stop-chamfered corners, and an entablature bearing the inscription 'LOGAN AND JOHNSTON SCHOOL OF DOMESTIC ECONOMY'. The bays to the left of the tower feature square-headed openings at ground level. The bay to the right has three widely-spaced narrow lights at ground level.

The west-facing elevation (Greenside Street) comprises two crowstepped gables connected by a single-storey range of two bays, and a further single-storey range to the left. Each gable has a canted bay window at ground level, with a plaque at first floor flanked by square-headed windows under a continuous hoodmould; a moulded string course runs at the base of the finial stack. A beehive sculpture and the inscription 'INSTITUTED 1890' are on the left gable plaque, and the carving '1893' appears on the right gable plaque. The central range has square-headed windows with stone mullions and transoms, and round arched blind arcading to the cornice. The left range has square-headed, bipartite windows with stone mullions and transoms. The building now has non-traditional windows.

The roofs are slate, with paired, square/diamond-aligned end and ridge stacks. A two-stage octagonal finial stack, corbelled out to its base, sits on the Greenside Street gables. Red ashlar gatepiers with a low boundary wall, a chamfered cope, decorative cast-iron gates, and railings are also part of the site.