21 Jardine Street. Lanarkshire Regimental Drill Hall, Glasgow

This is a large, two-storey and basement building with a basement, dating from 1894 and designed by Robert Alexander Bryden. It served as headquarters for the Lanarkshire Regiment and is situated on sloping ground opposite a green space. The building displays Tudor-style detailing and is predominantly constructed of red brick, with decorative half-timbering on the upper floor supported by dentil brackets, notably around the main east entrance and north elevation. The principal, or east, elevation features a pair of central gables framing a corbelled chimney stack bearing a regimental crest inscribed "REV." To the right is a raised entrance with a roll-moulded and corniced doorpiece. The north elevation exhibits a broad, castellated brick section rising above the roofline, topped with a decorative mullioned and transomed twelve-light window. The rear elevation is three storeys and largely symmetrical, with a pair of smaller gables in the centre and a tall, double-height canted bay to the right. The windows are generally tall and narrow; those on the ground floor of the front elevation are shallow-arched with shaped brick mouldings.

The building has boarded timber doors and timber sash windows with two panes to the lower sashes. It is roofed with steeply pitched slate, incorporating clay ridge tiles and cast iron rainwater goods.

The interior, observed in 2015, retains a good decorative scheme. A large entrance hall is tiled to dado height and features a broad stairway with decorative cast-iron balustrades. The Sergeant’s Mess on the first floor is timber-panelled, with fluted and capitalled colonnettes, niches, an integrated timber service canteen, and two decorative stone fireplaces with tiled inserts. The panelling extends to ceiling height, finished with a decorative dentilled cornice under a combed ceiling. The top floor houses a large open hall with timber flooring, dado panelling, curved metal roof trusses, and decorative metal ventilation grilles. A further staircase with barley-twist balustrades provides access to a viewing platform overlooking the hall.