Janitor's House, Garnetbank Primary School, 219 Renfrew Street, Glasgow

The Janitor's House, part of Garnetbank Primary School at 219 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, was designed by Thomas Lennox Watson in 1905. The main school building is a three-storey, nine-bay structure of square plan, built in a Free Renaissance style on a corner site. A four-storey section exists at the rear, with a later addition attached to the east elevation. The building is constructed of ashlar stone with a rusticated base, while the rear elevation uses snecked stone. The facades facing Renfrew Street and Garnet Street are arranged in a three-bay pattern. All windows feature multi-pane sash and case frames with glazing bars, with relieving arches above the ground-floor windows and cornices above the first-floor windows. A cill band course runs between the first and second floors, and an eaves cornice defines the roofline.

The Renfrew Street elevation has an entrance in the second and third bays from the east, featuring a corniced and banded surround inscribed 'INFANTS'. The main front incorporates a recessed three-bay section flanked by giant pilasters, with a bowed, pilastraded section displaying five-light windows on the ground and first floors. A frieze reads 'GARNETBANK PUBLIC SCHOOL', and above the first floor is another frieze reading 'SCHOOL BOARD OF GLASGOW'. A three-light arched and voussoired window is set within the pediment at the second floor.

On Garnet Street, a projecting three-bay central section features giant square angle piers, a banded entrance on the ground floor with a corniced entry and sidelights. The first-floor window openings are plain, while those on the second floor have shaped pediments. Two central piers support a third-floor balcony with a cast-iron balustrade in front of a corniced Venetian window with a sculpted tympanum, surmounted by a segmental pediment. A slim corniced chimneystack rises through the re-entrant angle on the north side. The rear elevation has plain windows, and the roof is covered in slates. Cast-iron railings with corniced stone piers enclose the site.

The former Janitor's House is a one-and-a-half storey, asymmetrical structure with a central, pilastered entrance and a segmental, sculptured pediment above. It has sash and case windows throughout. A two-light window with a stone mullion is located to the east of the front elevation, with a pedimented dormer above, and a circular window to the west. The western gable has straight skewputts and moulded skewputts, and incorporates two single-light windows. The roof is slated, with a corniced axial chimneystack.