172 Yorkhill Street

The building at 172 Yorkhill Street is a former drill hall designed by William Hunter McNab of Leiper and McNab in 1901, with alterations made in 1925 and converted into residential accommodation around 2000. It showcases a mix of castellated Tudoresque and Arts and Crafts architectural styles. Notably, the 4-storey brick and timber addition to the east is excluded from the listing.

The principal (east) elevation features two intricately detailed entrances. The left side is taller, with two angled sections surrounding a canted, recessed stone entrance bay that has a pedimented doorway adorned with finials and rounded columnettes extending two storeys, which also serve as window mullions. The right entrance is a wider arched doorway set in a semi-circular polychrome brick tower, which includes small tripartite windows and a deeply overhanging conical slate roof positioned between two lower pitched roof elements.

On the south elevation, there is a 3-storey, 3-bay section on the right and a 2-storey, 10-bay section on the left, featuring mullioned and transomed windows. The 2-storey section has arched windows on the ground floor, two of which are infilled former entrances, and there is a later alteration on the left upper floors due to the conversion to residential housing.

The building includes timber doors and multi-pane casement windows. The slate roofs are set behind castellated parapet walls, and cast iron rainwater goods are present.