453, 455 Great Western Road, Glasgow

445 and 447 Great Western Road in Glasgow is a terrace of tenement buildings designed by architect James Millar between 1897 and 1898. This structure showcases a Free Arts and Crafts/Glasgow Style, built on a steeply sloping site, and features polished red ashlar stone.

The elevation facing Great Western Road is asymmetrical, consisting of three storeys and an attic with irregular bays. It includes full-height tourelles that project from the first floor over ogival doorpieces located at the corners. These doorpieces are flanked by "term pilasters" that support an entablature, featuring a moulded foliate keystone and spandrel panels. The fenestration is varied, with the central bay highlighted by paired round-arched windows on the first floor, separated by a carved pier that supports three irregularly placed square oriels on the second floor, all resting on stone corbels. Other windows are either single-light or bipartite, often with transoms and/or mullions, and the first-floor windows are flanked by incised strip-pilasters. The sash windows have multi-pane glazing in the upper parts and plate-glass in the lower parts. A heavy string course runs above the ground floor, with cill and lintel strings on the upper floors.

The attic storey features eaves interrupted by gables, with wall-head piended and round-headed dormers. A tall single stack is corbelled from the second floor, and there are axial stacks beneath slate roofs. The tourelles are topped with deeply overhanging ogee domes and lead finials.

The eastern elevation presents an asymmetrical curved facade with a corbelled balustraded balcony on the first floor. Two tall stacks rise from the first floor, flanking two-storey canted oriel windows that are topped with elaborate curvilinear gables.

The western elevation is also asymmetrical, featuring three segmentally arched windows on the ground floor with moulded cills. Tall stacks are corbelled from the first floor, and there are round-headed dormers. The rear elevation has a raised basement and sub-basement, with projecting two-storey bays at each end—one on the west with a shaped gable and the other on the east with a balustrade. The central elevation is symmetrical, providing access to the upper floors via a balustraded balcony supported by bold brackets and relieving arches. The varied fenestration includes two square oriels on the second floor, with gables that rise asymmetrically above. A deep triangular basement area is enclosed by a bull-faced retaining wall.