Cattle Market, Bellgrove Street, Glasgow

Built mostly to the design of John Carrick, City architect, 1866-75; some ranges c.1910 by AB MacDonald, City Engineer; elements may be earlier (also post-war additions within boundary). A huge comlex, comprising cattle and dead meat markets and associated buildings, now largely demolished with principal entrance facades retained.

At NE, covered open area (used as car market), mostly 1866, 4 roof pitches (possibly conceived as a nave-and-aisles arrangement as roof span 2nd from south is the widest; N range seemingly of different date); cast iron columns, iron and steel roof framing, slated and glazed.

GATEWAY in to the above, terminating N end of Graham Square, is a columned enormous centre gateway, with flanking pedestrian openings; all cleaned ashlar, with channelling; alongside, on W side of Graham Square, the retained, painted ashlar facade of the MEAT MARKET (c.1875). Classical, also with giant order 2 colossal frames to round-arched gateway, parapet conceals roof (now removed); another gateway of similar type and scale straddles Moore Street, to W; a smaller heavily- rusticated gateway is on the channelled ashlar boundary wall to Bellgrove Street.

Fronting Melbourne Street (ie at W - originally Hill Street); at N end, a lengthy expanse of painted, ashlar channelled wall terminating in last surviving building, single-storey, in similar material with attic (attic may not be original). Gateway with 2 massive piers, wrought iron gates bearing city crest, much of this latter-mentioned work being designed by MacDonald. Remaining building now used by Intercity Motor Auctions.