Douglas Exchange, 226 Hope Street, Glasgow

Douglas Exchange, located at 226 Hope Street in Glasgow, was designed by Colin Menzies in 1910 and showcases a Baroque style. The building is three stories tall with an attic and features a layout of four by eight bays.

In 1938, a southern section was added to Hope Street. The exterior is made of polished red ashlar and has a steel frame, with a polished granite ground floor and channelled angle quoins facing Renfield Street. The windows are sash and case types set within architraves, featuring 6 and 15-pane glazing, while the ground floor has casement windows with glazing bars.

On the elevation facing Hope Street, there is a cornice at the ground floor level. The first-floor windows are keyblocked, and there is a segmentally pedimented loading bay above the northern entrance. The second-floor windows are also keyblocked and corniced, with a plain frieze and a modillion cornice above. The attic features lugged and shouldered windows set within a corniced solid die parapet.

The elevation to Renfrew Street mirrors the detailing found on the Hope Street side. The bays are arranged in a 1-6-1 pattern, with the outer bays being tripartite on the upper floors. There is a segmentally pedimented doorpiece in the eastern bay, aprons beneath the second-floor windows, and broken segmental pediments over the outer bays. Wallhead stacks rise from pedimented piers.