42-50 Gordon Street, Glasgow

42-50 Gordon Street in Glasgow is a four-storey and attic warehouse built in 1886 by George Bell II of Clarke and Bell, designed in a Free Classical style. The ground floor has been altered, while the building features three wide bays constructed of polished ashlar. It has sash and case tripartite windows with stone mullions and architraves, along with horizontal glazing bars. The outer bays are shallow and canted from the first to the third floors.

The central entrance is notable for its richly sculpted, open and broken pediment, which includes a figurative relief roundel and a bracketed lintel. Giant corbels are repeated in the outer bays. The first and second floors are divided by pilaster piers adorned with sculpted heads, which support urns placed in niches at the third floor of the central bay. The first floor features tripartite windows above, with a stylised tympanum (dated) above the central light, repeated in the outer bays. The second floor has plain windows, with a sculpted frieze above the central windows in the outer bays.

The building is topped with a main cornice and richly sculpted, single-light dormers. The outer bays have pedimented dormers with scroll supporters, while the centre features a pediment with a raised stack or parapet and a dentil cornice. The roof is steeply hipped and covered with slate, and there are corniced, pedimented end stacks.