Anderston Rice Mills, 27 Washington Street, Glasgow

Anderston Rice Mills, located at 27 Washington Street in Glasgow, consists of three separate buildings. The first mill, known as No 1 Mill, was built around 1844 and has five storeys, with a later addition of a brick sixth floor. It features six by four bays, and the windows are mostly small, margined casements with six-pane glazing. No 1 Mill is connected to No 2 Mill by gangways on each floor.

No 2 Mill, constructed around 1865, also has five storeys and is made of polychromatic brick with some ashlar dressings. It includes an elliptically arched ground floor loading bay with ashlar imposts. The building has an ovoid plan, oriented from north to south, squared at the northeast corner and corbelled out. It features giant basket arches on slim pilasters, with six by three bays rising from the first to the fourth floor, all arched. The eaves cornice is made of header bricks, and there is a slated, pitched-roof hoisting-bay dormer-head. The southern return of the building is plain, with a rendered pediment.

The office block, also built in 1865, is a two-storey, three-bay structure with a set-back single bay to the east. It is constructed of painted brick and has a consoled, corniced doorpiece. The ground floor windows are two-light with some mullions and ashlar hood-moulds, while the first floor features single-light windows with hood moulds, including an imitation painted hood in the northernmost bay.

Inside, the mills have wooden floors supported by cast-iron columns, and some cast-iron fittings and spiral chutes remain intact.