201, 203 West George Street, Glasgow

This is a restored three-storey commercial building with a basement and attic, located at 201 and 203 West George Street in Glasgow. Designed by John McLeod in 1887, it features a symmetrical Renaissance style and occupies a corner site. The building has four bays facing West George Street and eight bays on Wellington Street, arranged in a 1-6-1 pattern, with similarly detailed southern return bays to the lane. The central bay is blank, and the exterior is finished in polished ashlar with channelled quoins that define the angles and outer bays on Wellington Street. The basement has been altered and rises to a full ground floor on the south side due to the slope of the hill.

On the elevation to West George Street, there is a double entry at the top of the stairs that oversails the basement area, featuring coupled, console keyblocked arched openings. The ground floor windows have panelled aprons, and to the left of the entrance, there is a 4-light Corinthian panelled anta mullioned window, which is repeated with 3-light windows in the outer bays on Wellington Street. The central bays on Wellington Street, which have a raised ground floor, feature console keyblocked arched windows with panelled, sculpted spandrels. The ground floor cornice is present, and the first-floor windows are pedimented aedicule windows supported by Corinthian columns on a blind balustrade, with tripartite arrangements in the outer bays on Wellington Street.

On the second floor, there is a corbelled cill band and single-light panelled pilastered windows, with tripartite arrangements in the outer bays on Wellington Street and a 2-light window in the eastmost bay facing the lane. A swag frieze with triglyphs and a modillion cornice, which breaks forward above the quoins, are also present. The building features a three-light corniced full dormer with console keyblocked arched windows, a small central half-round pediment, and ball finials that break through a continuous balustraded die parapet with urns on West George Street. This design is repeated in the central bays on Wellington Street, which have single-light tripartite dormers with panelled blind outer lights and independent parapets in the outer bays.

The return to the lane mirrors the main elevation's detailing in two bays. There is also a shaped wall-head stack facing the lane and a balustraded boundary wall with corniced piers and a balustrade at the entrance on West George Street.