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

Campbell Douglas, dated 1896. 3-storey and attic Scottish

16th century style office and hostel building. Squared

and snecked red sandstone ashlar; brick rear.

Asymmetrical elevations and irregular ground plan.

CATHEDRAL SQUARE ELEVATION: 5 (irregular) bay, with

doorways in outer bays, that to right with tripartite,

stone mullioned fanlight and hoodmould, wider hoodmould

over-door and flanking window, to outer left, and string

course linking the 2. Gable at centre, with 2 bays of

windows below, and further gable to left, with apex

stack; tower rising flush with wallplane in penultimate

bay to right, with adjoining stack, corbelled dormerhead

flanking to right and corbelled angle of obliquely sited,

gabled S elevation; angle tourelle to outer left chamfered

angle below.

JOHN KNOX STREET ELEVATION: 4-bay, with doorway in outer

left, fanlight detailed as above, and canted and corbelled

1st floor oriel to left of centre. Irregular windows in

remaining bays; gable to left, linked to NW corner

tourelle by parapet.

REAR ELEVATION: variety of window sizes.

Small-pane sash and case windows. Crowstepped gables

with beak skewputts. Westmorland slates and leaded ball

finials to cone-roofed towers. Modern rooflights.

GATEPIERS AND GATE: 2 squat columnar red ashlar

sandstone piers, with moulded necks and ball finials,

adjoined to coped wall of stugged, snecked sandstone.

Decorative wrought-iron gate.