2, 4 St George's Road, Glasgow

This is a substantial, late 19th-century tenement block built in 1891 by Sir J. J. Burnet (Burnet, Son and Campbell). It is constructed in a French early Renaissance style. The building occupies a curving facade of 24 unequal bays along St George’s Road and Sauchiehall Street, and has three return bays facing Renfrew Street. The exterior is finished in red polished ashlar. The windows are sash and case, with architraves. The first-floor windows alternate in canted bays which rise to the second floor as pavilion sections. The dormers are tripartite and bipartite, featuring sculpted pediments and finials.

The section facing Sauchiehall Street and St George's Road is symmetrical, with 18 bays arranged in a 2-2-10-2-2 pattern, with the outer and central bays recessed. A broken open pediment is centrally positioned, incorporating sculpted tympana and reclining cherubim. A central clock is located at first-floor level within a roundhead niche, flanked by figures representing ‘Night’ and ‘Day’. Canted bays are supported by caryatids and crouching Atlantes. Above, a frieze displays the lettering "CHARING CROSS MANSIONS," surmounted by a scrolled, open pediment bearing an escutcheon and cherub supporters. Simple linking two-bay sections flank these, with a balcony at the second floor. The central sections are advanced with independent mansard roofs and brattishing, clasping lower sections with conical roofs and oculi extending above the close entries. A balcony is situated at the third floor in the central bays, above a recessed, elliptically-headed arcade. A central polygonal cupola rises from a corbelled balcony with brattishing, and features a two-stage arcaded lantern.

The section facing St George’s Road and Renfrew Street is asymmetrical and includes a tripartite NW corner turret with a first-floor balcony and a frieze reading "CHARING + MANSIONS." The arcaded third-floor detailing is repeated in two bays to either side of the turret. A corbelled and corniced stack is located in the first bay from the west in Renfrew Street, with a blind niche breaking through the second-floor cornice. A canted bay, the third from the west in Renfrew Street, mirrors the main pavilion bays along St George's Road. An advanced, independently-roofed bay, the third from the north in St George's Road, incorporates a blind balcony over an architraved close entrance.

The slate roofs are steeply hipped, with panelled, corniced axial and wallhead stacks. A single-storey, parapetted section connects to Renfrew Street, originally intended as a full-height extension to Charing Cross Mansions. It features a Burnetian-arched loading bay and a blocked close entrance.