Stores And Offices, 64 Waterloo Street, Glasgow

James Chalmers, 1898-1900. Free classical, 3-storey and attic

commercial building; 4 x 3 main bays with single corner bay.

Polished red ashlar, faced with polished granite at basement

and partially at ground floor.

ELEVATION TO WATERLOO STREET: arcaded ground floor with

Corinthian pilastrade, central arched entrance with

double-leaf door, wrought-iron grille above, leading to

double-leaf glazed door with carved timber tympanum; flanking

pilasters with granite shafts supporting standing figure

sculpture at 1st floor.

1ST FLOOR WINDOWS: elaborately sculpted 3-light aedicule

window with pediment and flanking obelisk piers in W bay, 3

6-light stone mullioned and transomed windows in E bays,

Ionic column mullioned, recessed windows above with

keyblocked, blind arches over. Stylised aedicule windows in

E bay, repeated above blind. Balustraded parapet.

SW polygonal, semi-extruded corner tower; canted 1st floor

with shaped-lintel windows, 2-light windows above in deep

reveals flanked by pilaster strips at 2nd and 3rd floor, 4th

floor single light window with bowed cill, arched window

above. Semi-circular aedicules to right and left with

barley-sugar columns, arched openings in outer bays. Shaped

cope.

E RETURN: arched, keyblocked ground floor windows with carved

wooden transomes. Simple windows set in pilaster strips

above. 4th floor raised parapet with stylised open aedicule.

INTERIOR: partially anta columned entrance hall.