Post Office, 81-91 Bothwell Street, Glasgow

E G Wylie (Wright and Wylie), 1927; sculptor Archibald

Dawson. 7-storey steel-framed modern classical commercial

building occupying whole block, 7 x 13 x 7 bays. Inverted

U-plan. Blaxter stone, v-channelled ground floor and quoin

strips; polished granite plinth rising to shop front pilasters

at return elevations; glazed brick rear elevation diapered

between floors in main block. Bronze shop fronts and external

details with Greek-key frieze. Ground floor cornice forming

stylobate; regularly spaced 4 sculpted panels representing

Industry, Prudence, Thrift, and Courage respectively;

architraved, corniced shopfronts; triple-arched entrance with

sculpted soffits; plain windows in mezzanine floor. All

windows metal framed with geometric glazing bars. Solid

balcony with central sculpted coat of arms in central 3 bays

above main entrance, supported on coupled sculpted consoles.

Giant order of stylish Cornithian pilastrade rising from 1st

to 4th floors with metal friezes between floors,

dentil band, projecting cornice with acroters; outer bays

above ground floor: 2-storey aedicule windows, consoled,

corniced, flanked by plain single lights; carved head between

floors; solid panelled balcony on consoles about 1st.

Plain windows above 5th floor; plain entablature. Recessed

glazing to eaves gallery, projecting sculpted panels between

paired escutcheons at angles; main detail band; modillion

cornice.

ELEVATION TO BLYTHSWOOD STREET: basement rising in slope

of hill; ground floor pilastered windows with continuous

cornice, independent windows in outer bays; stepped,

pedimented, keyblocked entrance to No 80 Blythswood Street;

giant pilastrade rising from 1st to 4th floor as main Bothwell

Street elevation in 5 inner bays flanked by plain recessed

margin windows in outer bays.

West Campbell Street return repeats Blythswood Street

elevation.

3 return bays to E and W end of Bothwell Lane, single-lights

in margin recesses.

VESTIBULE AND INTERIOR: bronze folding gates, shell-headed

niches to right and left of entry; fretwork vestibule soffit;

3 bronze entrance doors with friezes - "Scottish Legal

Building"; shallow entrance hall pilasters with polychromatic

capitals; bronze lift with wrought-iron enclosures;

wrought-iron railings and bronze handrails.