Stores And Offices, 64 Waterloo Street, Glasgow

This building, located at 64 Waterloo Street in Glasgow, was designed by James Chalmers and constructed between 1898 and 1900. It is a three-storey commercial building with an attic, featuring a free classical style. The structure has four main bays across the front and an additional corner bay.

The exterior is made of polished red ashlar, with polished granite at the basement and partially at the ground floor. The elevation facing Waterloo Street includes an arcaded ground floor supported by Corinthian pilasters. The central entrance features an arched double-leaf door, with a wrought-iron grille above it leading to a double-leaf glazed door adorned with a carved timber tympanum. Flanking pilasters with granite shafts support standing figure sculptures on the first floor.

On the first floor, there is an elaborately sculpted three-light aedicule window with a pediment and flanking obelisk piers on the west bay. The east bays contain three six-light stone mullioned and transomed windows, with Ionic column mullioned recessed windows above, featuring keyblocked blind arches. Stylised aedicule windows are present in the east bay, repeated above the blind arches. The building is topped with a balustraded parapet.

The southwest corner features a polygonal, semi-extruded tower. The first floor has canted windows with shaped lintels, while the second and third floors have two-light windows in deep reveals flanked by pilaster strips. The fourth floor has a single light window with a bowed cill and an arched window above. There are semi-circular aedicules on either side with barley-sugar columns and arched openings in the outer bays, topped with a shaped cope.

On the east return, the ground floor features arched, keyblocked windows with carved wooden transomes, while simple windows set in pilaster strips are located above. The fourth floor has a raised parapet with a stylised open aedicule.

Inside, there is a partially anta columned entrance hall.