Britannia Building, 166, 168 Buchanan Street, 164A, Glasgow

The Britannia Building, located at 166, 168 Buchanan Street and 164A in Glasgow, was designed by John A Campbell in 1898. This free style commercial building stands seven stories tall and is constructed from red sandstone ashlar with a polished granite base course and entrance bay. The entrance features a rusticated and roll-moulded door surround with a fanlight, adorned with wrought-ironwork, positioned at the center of the Buchanan Street front, which is flanked by modern shop fronts. Above the ground and first floors, there are cornices.

Prominent architectural features include a six-light canted oriel window located at the center and left from the first to the fourth floors, topped with a balustrade. The fifth floor displays an elaborately pilastered and columned window with a sculpted keystone, along with a sculpted frieze in the gable that culminates in an apex aedicule. To the right, from the second floor, there are pilaster strips adorning a tall wallhead stack, which is situated above a carved panel inscribed "The Dundas House."

The building has a chamfered corner to the southwest by Dundas Lane, featuring tripartite windows from the first to the sixth floors. The fifth floor has a consoled aedicule in the center light, along with carved panels above the smaller lights at the sixth floor. Broad eaves extend above a dentil cornice.

On Dundas Lane, there is a brick gable to the left with a raised gablehead stack from the second floor, which has unfortunately been shortened, and windows to the right. Slightly recessed glazed brick bays to the east consist of five paired bays set in arched panels, featuring red sandstone lintels and tripartite windows under timber bracketed eaves. The front of the building has plate-glass sash and case windows, while Dundas Lane features four-pane windows.