The New Club, 144, 146 West George Street, Glasgow

The New Club, located at 144 and 146 West George Street in Glasgow, was designed by James Sellars of Campbell Douglas and Sellars in 1879, featuring sculpture by William Mossman. This building, originally constructed as The New Club, has been redeveloped behind its facade. It showcases a French classical style with four storeys, a basement, and a double attic, with the outer bays raised.

The facade consists of seven unequal main bays, with the single outer bays projecting forward. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar, and all windows are sash and case with plate glass. The lower floors display an asymmetrical design, while the central bays are more regular. Notable features include a moulded cill band on the ground floor, a cornice on the first floor, and a projecting balcony on brackets at the second floor. The third floor has another moulded cill band, and the building is topped with a plain entablature and eaves cornice.

On the west bay, there is a shallow, canted section that rises to the first floor, featuring architraved windows at both the ground and first floors. The first-floor window has an incised frieze and small anthemion decoration, complemented by three-quarter pilasters.

The entrance bay on the east side features a fluted, pedimented arched entrance set on giant pedestals, adorned with sculpted panels and relief figures in the spandrels. The entablature above has a richly sculpted frieze.

From the second floor, the outer bays become symmetrical, with tripartite windows that are centrally pedimented and flanked by graduated pilasters. The third floor has pilaster-mullioned three-light windows, which are repeated with architraves and cornices on the fourth floor, topped by a dormer that rises through the parapet and is flanked by small piers.

The central bays feature three giant oculi on the ground floor within shaped pedimented panels, bordered by sculpted details. The first floor has a giant decorated five-light console pilastrade with cast-iron balconies set in continuous architraves. The second floor contains three single windows with centrally consoled pedimented architraves and sculpted panels above a string course. The third floor has a coupled pilastrade with recessed glazing, and three pedimented dormers rise through the parapet, accompanied by oval attic lights with sculpted heads. The building is topped with a slate roof, and the outer mansards are raised. Solid ashlar boundary walls with entrance wings complete the property.