133, 135, 137 West George Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 July 1988. Office building. 11 related planning applications.

133, 135, 137 West George Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
old-cellar-rook
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 July 1988
Type
Office building
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

133, 135, and 137 West George Street in Glasgow is a six-storey office building designed by James Thomson between 1896 and 1897, showcasing a Free Classical style. The ground floor was altered by Thomas Tait in 1933. The building features three groups of seven unequal bays and is constructed from polished red ashlar. It has sash and case windows set within architraves.

The original entrance at No 137 West George Street includes an arched, pilastered doorpiece with a mask keyblock, situated at the top of steps flanked by polished granite die walls. The ground floor is made of sandstone, with fluted pilasters that divide the bays, bronze dressings, and a granite plinth.

On the elevation facing West George Street, the windows are arranged in a 2-3-2 pattern, with the central bay advanced. The ground floor features a mutule cornice. A richly sculpted, bracketed cornice on the first floor supports a solid balcony on the second floor, which has pilastered, arched windows with panelled spandrels and keyblocked cornices. The central window is aedicled with granite-shafted columns. The third-floor windows have lugged architraves, while the fourth floor showcases Corinthian columns at the arcaded windows, a sculpted frieze, and a bracketed cornice. The building is topped with a balustraded die parapet, which is pierced over the central bay and flanked by finials.

The elevation facing Renfield Street repeats the detailing found on the West George Street side. The windows here are arranged in a 3-2-1-1-3-2 pattern. At the first floor, granite columns support a tripartite arched aedicule window with flanking columns above. There is an arched columned window in the second floor's fourth bay from the north, a flat-headed columned window in the sixth bay at the third floor, and a broken segmental pediment with a sculpted tympanum above it.

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