Bank, 42 Bridgeton Cross, Glasgow

John Gordon, 1894. Distinctive 4-storey, 4-bay asymmetric Renaissance-detailed former bank building, situated on corner site, with double-height, pedimented former banking hall to ground floor corner. Red sandstone ashlar, channelled to ground and above former banking hall. Highly polished granite base course; cill courses, 2nd floor cornice forming 3rd floor cill course. Distinctive (Uneven/Asymmetrical) scooped parapet. Round-arched, key-stoned windows to former banking hall. Bays above banking hall with swag panels over windows to 2nd floor. Segmental-pediments to 3rd floor windows.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: asymmetrical entrance elevation to N (Bridgeton Cross) with 3 tall windows to tetrastyle Ionic-columned frontispiece (columns of polished granite) to pedimented banking hall at right; 2 windows to each floor above flanking coat of arms at 2nd floor and pilaster at 3rd floor rising into wallhead pediment with statue of lion rampant. Broad Roman Doric doorpiece to left with canted window and single window at each floor above. Landressy Street (W) elevation with 5 arcaded windows below further coat of arms, regular fenestration above.

Predominantly replacement tilt-and-turn windows; some timber. Channelled and corniced wallhead and angle stacks with decorative swag panels.