Bank, 42 Bridgeton Cross, Glasgow

The building at 42 Bridgeton Cross in Glasgow is a distinctive former bank designed by John Gordon in 1894. This 4-storey, 4-bay structure features an asymmetric Renaissance style and is located on a corner site. The ground floor corner has a double-height, pedimented former banking hall, while the exterior is made of red sandstone ashlar, channelled at the ground level and above the banking hall. It has a highly polished granite base course, cill courses, and a cornice on the second floor that serves as the cill course for the third floor. The building is topped with a unique scooped parapet.

The entrance elevation facing north towards Bridgeton Cross is asymmetrical, showcasing three tall windows and a tetrastyle frontispiece with Ionic columns made of polished granite, leading to the pedimented banking hall on the right. Above, there are two windows on each floor flanking a coat of arms on the second floor, with a pilaster on the third floor that rises into a wallhead pediment featuring a statue of a lion rampant. To the left, there is a broad Roman Doric doorpiece with a canted window, and a single window at each floor above. The west elevation on Landressy Street includes five arcaded windows below another coat of arms, with regular fenestration above.

Most of the windows have been replaced with tilt-and-turn designs, although some original timber windows remain. The building also features channelled and corniced wallheads and angle stacks adorned with decorative swag panels.