518 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

John Keppie (Honeyman and Keppie), 1903. Early Renaissance;

4-storey, 3-bay, gable fronted office building with early

19th century rear building attached at 1st floor level.

ELEVATION TO SAUCHIEHALL STREET: 1st and 2nd floor windows

sash and case with 8-pane glazing in upper sash and 2-pane

glazing in lower; 1st floor mutule cornice. 1st floor windows curvilinear sculpted architraves with keystones, sculpted

pilasters, keystoned heads, shaped in centre bay,

semi-circular in outer bays. 2nd floor: continuous moulded

cill band; flanking polygonal piers with sculpted corbels in

outer bays; architraved corbelled windows; 2nd floor cornice

becoming semi-circular bracketted podiums on either side of

centre bay and supporting 2 sculpted seated figures. 3 blind

bays to 3rd floor with architraved panels and pilastraded

central bay. Shaped gable with sculpted relief supporting

1-bay architraved aedicule with keystoned, semi-circular

head. Plain eaves frieze and cornice.

REAR BUILDING: 3-storey, 3-bay house. Painted ashlar. Ground

floor band. 2nd floor moulded cill band. All windows sash and

case, T-pane with 8 panes in upper sash, architraves to 1st

floor dropped to band. Slate roof. Straight skews with 2

gable stacks.

INTERIOR OF REAR BUILDING: 1st floor drawing room with column

screen and Carron Company hob grate cast-iron fireplace with

Adamitic surround.