42, 44 Jamaica Street, Glasgow

George Bell, 1897. Free classical, 5-storey commercial

building with corner public house. 4 x 8 bays with curved

corner bay. Polished red ashlar, polished granite at ground

floor. Sash and case windows, plate glass, etched glass to

public house with carved timber cills. Console brackets

flanking corner entrance and No 44 Jamaica Street, sculpted,

pedimented panels over.

ELEVATION TO JAMAICA STREET: bays arranged 1-3, canted at 2nd

and 3rd floor, corniced to each floor. Margined 1st floor

windows. Console bracketted, parapet sculpted with masks, at

2nd floor, segmentally pedimented over central canted window.

Plain upper window; sculpted frieze over canted bay. Cornice,

parapet raised in centre.

ELEVATION TO MIDLAND STREET: repeating Jamaica Street

elevation with linked canted bays. Plain outer bay as S bay

to Jamaica Street. Slate roof.