Paint Warehouses, 104-118 Tradeston Street, Glasgow

The Paint Warehouses at 104-118 Tradeston Street in Glasgow are a complex of six sections, primarily used for paint storage and production.

The first section, at 104-106 Tradeston Street, was built in 1888 by H and D Barclay. It is a four-storey, nine-bay paint warehouse featuring an ashlar front with brick sides and rear. The building has segmental arched windows on the ground and first floors, along with a similarly arched door and cart entrance. There are cornices at the ground and third floors, and cill bands at the second and third floors. A stag's head shield, which serves as the trademark, is located at the first floor, and a plaque dated 1888 is found at the second floor. The central pediment originally featured a stag's head that has since been removed. Inside, the structure includes iron columns, steel beams, wooden floors, and flues, topped by a slate roof with brick gable end stacks.

The second section, at 118 Tradeston Street, was designed by W F McGibbon in 1900. This four-storey warehouse is an eight-by-four bay corner building constructed in a brick Venetian Gothic style. The ground floor features pointed arched, wooden-framed windows with a cill string course. There are three pointed arched doorways, two of which face Tradeston Street, with one having been widened. The corner of the building displays terracotta stag's head plaques. Tall lancet windows rise through the first, second, and third floors, with cill string courses at the first and second floors. Narrow corbelled pilaster strips separate each lancet. The rear of the building is blank, while the corner has a machicolated parapet raised with stone quatrefoils, although the crenellation has been removed. The corner tower includes four narrow lancets, machicolation, and Ghibelline crenellation. The interior features iron columns, steel girders, and floors made of corrugated iron and concrete, with a timber attic and a slate roof.

The third section, located behind the 1888 warehouse, consists of the paint grinding and mixing rooms, built in 1888. This two-storey structure has iron columns and sheet iron floors, some of which have round holes for tanks. The roofs are glazed, and ridge ventilators are installed to extract paint fumes, with square and circular section brick chimneys rising from inside the buildings.

The fourth section, facing the yard, is a varnish factory designed by W F McGibbon in 1896. This three-storey building with an attic features a ground floor supported by an iron colonnade and includes a dormer hoist.