42-50 Gordon Street, Glasgow

George Bell II of Clarke and Bell, 1886. Free Classical

ground floor altered, 4-storey and attic warehouse, 3

wide bays. Polished ashlar. Sash and case tripartite

windows with stone mullions and architraves, horizontal

glazing bars. Shallow canted outer bays 1st to 3rd floors.

Central entrance with richly sculpted, open and broken

pediment, with figurative relief roundel, bracketted

lintel, giant corbels latter repeated in outer bays.

Pilaster piers with sculpted heads dividing bays at 1st

and 2nd floor, supporting urns in niches at 3rd floor,

central bay. 1st floor tripartite over with stylised

tympanum (dated) to central light, repeated in outer bays.

Plain 2nd floor windows with sculpted frieze over central

windows in outer bays. Main cornice. Richly sculpted,

single-light dormers, pedimented in outer bays with

scroll supporters, pediment in centre with raised

stack/parapet and dentil cornice, steeply hipped slate

roof. Corniced, pedimented end stacks.