5-7 Wellington Street, Glasgow

5-7 Wellington Street in Glasgow is a five-storey and attic corner tenement building designed by Frank Burnet and Boston between 1896 and 1899. The building features Renaissance details and houses commercial premises over shops and a public house, highlighted by a prominent corner tower. It is constructed of red sandstone ashlar, with a channelled first floor and a cornice above that serves as a cill course for the second floor.

The façade includes tripartite windows with stone mullions, which are framed by giant pilaster margins that connect the second and third floors. The fourth floor features banded margins and colonnette mullions. The eaves cornice is accompanied by a balustrade that flanks raised dies or wallhead stacks. Carved cartouches are positioned between the second and third floors, dividing the bays. The public house has a fascia board that extends over the adjacent shops, which have modern windows and timber aprons.

The corner tower has two windows on each face at the first floor, with bowed tripartite windows on the second and third floors that are corbelled out above the first floor on a bracket and corbel course. The third-floor windows feature decorative baluster mullions and are topped with a cornice. The fourth floor has a regular tripartite window, while the tower head breaks the eaves with elliptically-arched tripartite windows on each face, flanked by Ionic capitalled pilasters and topped with a balustrade and dies.

On the Wellington Street elevation, the tower is located in the outer bay to the left, with three bays in the center and right. There is a door next to a covered pend on the outer right, and the public house occupies the center and left at ground level, with regular fenestration above. The Argyle Street elevation features the tower in the bay to the right, with the public house front at ground level in that bay, and modern shopfronts in the center and left bays. The upper floors have regular fenestration.

The windows throughout the building are plate glass timber sash and case. The interior has not been seen.