Cathedral House, 28, 32, 53 Cathedral Square, Glasgow

Cathedral House, located at 28, 32, and 53 Cathedral Square in Glasgow, was designed by Campbell Douglas and completed in 1896. This three-storey and attic building is styled in the Scottish 16th century manner, featuring squared and snecked red sandstone ashlar on the front, with a brick rear.

The elevation facing Cathedral Square has five irregular bays. The doorways are positioned in the outer bays, with the right doorway featuring a tripartite stone mullioned fanlight and a hoodmould, along with a wider hoodmould above the door and a flanking window on the outer left. A string course connects these two elements. The central gable has two bays of windows below it, and there is another gable to the left with an apex stack. A tower rises flush with the wall plane in the penultimate bay to the right, accompanied by an adjoining stack, and a corbelled dormerhead to the right. The outer left features a chamfered angle with an angle tourelle below.

The elevation on John Knox Street has four bays, with a doorway in the outer left that includes a fanlight similar to the one on Cathedral Square. There is a canted and corbelled oriel window on the first floor to the left of center. The remaining bays have irregular windows, and there is a gable to the left that is linked to the northwest corner tourelle by a parapet.

The rear elevation displays a variety of window sizes, with small-pane sash and case windows. It features crowstepped gables with beak skewputts, and the cone-roofed towers are topped with Westmorland slates and leaded ball finials. There are also modern rooflights.

The gatepiers and gate consist of two squat columnar red ashlar sandstone piers, which have moulded necks and ball finials. These are attached to a coped wall made of stugged, snecked sandstone, and there is a decorative wrought-iron gate.