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

Howden's Works, located at 191-197 Scotland Street, Glasgow, was initially designed by Nisbet Sinclair in 1897, with subsequent additions and alterations by Bryden and Robertson in 1907 and 1908.

The complex features a range of structures, beginning with two ashlar gatepiers. An advanced lodge, built in 1897, is set forward from the main western elevation and is a two-story ashlar building. It has two doors and three windows on the ground floor, two windows on the first floor, a cornice, and a tall wallhead stack. A flat roof tops the lodge.

West of the lodge is a two-story, nine-bay office building constructed in 1897 of ashlar, with banding on the ground floor. A central doorway provides access, and recessed windows have roll-moulded arrises and wooden frames. A cornice and parapet are present, along with two wallhead stacks. A Mansard roof, clad in red tiles and featuring large windows, was added in 1907 to create a drawing office. The building is further defined by cast-iron railings.

A second advanced lodge, dating from circa 1902 and originally resembling the eastern lodge, features a later top floor above the cornice. Constructed of ashlar, it has one door and one window on the ground floor, and three windows on the first and second floors. Two ashlar gatepiers mark its approach.

A two-story, three-bay ashlar workmen's mess-room, built in 1908, is distinguished by its cornice and parapet. Adjacent to this is a machine shop, erected in 1908 of pressed brick with two gables facing the street. One gable contains a ground-floor dining room with six windows and a first-floor with five modern windows. A string course and arch enclose a blank oculus, and the gable is topped by a small pediment. The larger western gable has an original wide doorway, string courses, an arch supported on corbels, a blank oculus, and a small apex pediment. A plain brick west wall completes the rear elevation, with the original corrugated roof having been replaced.

Behind the offices, the complex incorporates several production areas. Bays 2-7 house the 1897 machine and constructing shop, spanning six bays, each 30 feet tall with 28 foot spans. The structure utilizes a steel frame with cast-iron crane girder brackets, brick walls with shafting boxes, and a roof consisting of steel rings and tie-bar couples. The corrugated roof has been renewed. Bays 8-10 comprise a sheet iron workers shop, likely extended in the 1920s, and the 1898 Smithy, which consists of brick walls and a steel tie roof. Bays 11-13, dating from circa 1902, are three north-south fitting machine shops featuring a steel frame and cast-iron brackets, with slightly arched steel trusses. One bay has been converted into a new office. Bay 14, constructed in 1908, is a tall fitting shop with a 45-foot span, a steel frame, and a traveling crane, with a steel truss roof. The south walls of bays 10-14, originally brick with a tall arched gable for bay 14, are now harled.