201-203 Pitt Street, Glasgow

201-203 Pitt Street in Glasgow is a six-storey office block designed by Honeyman, Keppie and Mackintosh in 1904 and reconstructed by Herbert Barker in 1932. The building features a five-by-three-bay layout and is highly glazed, showcasing Mannerist detailing at the attic and pavilion corners. The ground floor includes three shops, while the fifth floor serves as an attic storey. The exterior is made of sandstone ashlar, with a largely blank brick rear and side elevation. A deep frieze and cornice are present at the first-floor cill course above the ground level. The building has tripartite windows from the first to the gallery-effect fourth floor, with moulded cills and a cill course linking the centre bays, and a deep continuous apron beneath the fourth-floor windows. The cornice is modillioned.

On the east elevation facing Pitt Street, there are modern shop fronts. Slender pilasters flank the outer bays above ground, with panelled divisions next to the centre windows. The first-floor features timber tripartite windows with round-arched glazing over the centre light. The second and third-floor windows in the centre bays are supported by Corinthian column-mullions, while the outer bays have gently canted windows that are bracketted above the first floor and feature a frieze as a parapet at the fourth floor, which bears a blank panel at the centre. The fourth floor has deep-set windows with architraved surrounds. The tall attic floor has single windows in each bay, each with a roll-moulded surround, moulded lintel, keystone, and a keystoned semi-circular pediment. The outer pavilion bays are slightly advanced, with windows set in Mannerist aedicules, which include a pedimented centre section that breaks the eaves with moulded detail above the window and breaks through the lower pediment on paired, engaged, and banded columns.

The north elevation facing Sauchiehall Street has three bays that are detailed similarly to the east elevation, minus the second and fourth bays. It features fixed-pane timber windows with top hoppers, casement, and sash and case styles, mostly with plate glass glazing. The building has a flat roof and a substantial wallhead chimneystack to the west.