23-25 Montrose Street, Glasgow

23-25 Montrose Street in Glasgow is a former Sanitary Chambers designed by A B MacDonald, City Engineer, between 1895 and 1897. This building features a cluttered Mannerist style and stands three stories tall, with a four-story tower at the corner.

The exterior is made of polished ashlar set on a polished pink granite basecourse, with alternating granite balustrades at recessed bays and vermicular rustication at the ground level. The ground floor windows are round-arched with Gibbsian surrounds, while the upper floors have aedicular windows with blocked columns or pilasters, and the first floor features pedimented windows.

On the Montrose Street elevation, the building has five bays, with the end and center bays slightly advanced. The leftmost bay is the tower feature. There is a central porch supported by polished pink granite Doric columns, featuring a round-arched doorway with Gibbsian detail and double-leaf panelled doors. Above the door is a canted window on the first floor, with three additional windows on the second floor. The tower to the left is four stories high, with pedimented Venetian windows on the first and second floors, and tripartite windows with pilastered reveals on the third floor. The parapet is adorned with raised die pedestals at the corners. The far-right bay is advanced with a pend at ground level and Venetian windows above.

The Cochrane Street elevation is longer and plainer, with advanced end bays. The central bays feature a consoled balustraded balcony on the first floor, while other first-floor windows have balustraded aprons. All windows are sash and case, with two-pane lower sashes and single-pane upper sashes. The building has a deep plain parapet and an eaves cornice. Over the center bay of the Montrose Street elevation, there is a pediment with urn finials and a statue of Hygeia at the apex.