Howden's Works, 191-197 Scotland Street, Glasgow

Nisbet Sinclair 1897, Bryden and Robertson 1907 and 1908.

East to West:

1. 2 ashlar square-section gatepiers. Lodge, 1897, advanced

from main W elevation, 2-storey ashlar. Ground floor 2 doors,

3 windows. 1st floor 2 windows, cornice, tall wallhead stack.

Flat roof.

1. 1897 2-storey 9-bay offices ashlar, banded on ground

floor. Central doorway. Recessed windows with roll moulded

arrises and wooden frames. Cornice, parapet and 2 wallhead

stacks. Mansard roof, red tiles and large windows, added 1907

for drawing office. Cast-iron railings.

1. Advanced lodge, circa 1902, 2-storey (originally similar

to E lodge) with later top floor above cornice. Ashlar.

Ground floor 1 door and 1 window. 3 1st and 2nd floor

windows. 2 ashlar square-section gatepiers.

1. 2-storey 3-bay ashlar workmen's mess-room; cornice and

parapet, 1908.

1. Machine shop, 1908, pressed brick, with 2 gables to the

street. Smaller gable has 6 window ground floor men's dining

room. 1st floor 5 modern windows. String course and arch

enclose blank oculus. Simple gable topped by small pediment.

1. Larger gable to W has original wide doorway, string

courses, arch projecting on corbels, blank oculus, small apex

pediment. Blank west wall, ordinary brick. Original

corrugated roof has been renewed.

Behind offices, excluding 2-storey office addition:

Bays 2-7: 1897 machine and constructing shop, 6 East-West

bays, each 30' tall with 28' spans. Steel frame with

cast-iron crane girder brackets. Brick walls with shafting

boxes. Roof of steel rings and tie-bar couples. Corrugated

roof renewed.

Bays 8-10; 1898 sheet iron workers shop, extended probably in

1920s. 1898 Smithy, brick walls and steel tie roof.

Bays 11-13, circa 1902, 3 N-S fitting machine shops steel

framed and cast-iron brackets, slightly arched steel trusses.

1 bay contains new office.

Bay 14: 1908, tall 45' span fitting shop, steel framed, with

travelling crane. Steel truss roof.

South walls of bays 10-14, brick with tall arched gable for

bay 14. All now harled.