Provand's Lordship, 3 Castle Street, Glasgow

Provand's Lordship, located at 3 Castle Street in Glasgow, is a former manse dating back to 1471, with extensions added to the west in 1670. The building is three stories high with an attic, constructed from rubble sandstone that has been squared for the quoins and margins, featuring chamfered arrises on most openings.

The east elevation, facing Cathedral Square, has three widely spaced bays, each containing 18th-century windows, with additional windows at the ground level and smaller windows above. The outer bays have doorways, although the right-hand doorway has been blocked and converted into a window.

The rear elevation was extended to the south in 1670 with a gabled stair block, which is dated and initialled on a sundial on the south side. Two further gabled bays were added to the west at the northern end in the mid-17th century, linked to the 1670 addition by a bay featuring a wallhead stack. This elevation has irregular openings of various sizes and an off-centre doorway with a roll-moulded surround to the left.

The northeast elevation, which was originally crow-stepped, lost this feature when it was abutted by a tenement in the 1840s (the tenement was demolished in 1980). This side now has blank masonry with two large modern windows on the left.

The south elevation features a blank gable end from 1471 with a wallhead stack and displays a weathered coat-of-arms of Andrew Muirhead on the club-skewputt to the east. An extension to the west includes one bay with a doorway that has been blocked and windows in each bay. The sundial mentioned earlier is set on a former quoin.

The building is topped with grey slates and has coped stacks with clay cans. Iron railings with a mitre and shield finial, along with a pedestrian gate, are located at the southwest corner.

Inside, the building has low ceilings supported by heavy, roughly hewn beams and modern flooring. There is a variety of wide fireplaces, featuring huge lintels above hooded chimneypieces, with relieving arches for those on the ground floor, and later bolection-moulded surrounds.