Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

190 TRONGATE AND 2-4 (EVEN NOS) GLASSFORD STREETLB32789

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
A
Date Added
15/12/1970
Local Authority
Glasgow
Planning Authority
Glasgow
Burgh
Glasgow
NGR
NS 59326 64999
Coordinates
259326, 664999

Description

T P Marwick (Edinburgh) with W Birnie Rhind, sculptor,

1903. Mixed renaissance style, for National Bank.

4-storey and attic, commercial building, 4 bays to

Glassford Street, 3 bays to the Trongate plean ashlar,

with polished granite base course and columns.

Channelled ground floor with rounded arrises, banded

above.

GLASSFORD STREET ELEVATION: 3 round-arched bays at

ground to centre and right; off-centre Roman Doric

columned doorpiece set in central arch, with semi-

circular carved panel above, flanked by 2 similarly

headed windows. Smaller architraved and keystoned door in

N bay with small stair windows in 2 storeys above.

Modillion cornice above ground floor. 3 keystoned and

corniced windows with Gibbs surrounds in 1st and 2nd

floors. Corbelled corner turrets rising through 3rd

floor and attic and capped with finialled domes.

Corbelled, Ionic engaged columns divide 3rd floor

windows, modillioned main cornice with elaborate, 3-

stage, aediculed, wallhead gable above with sculpted

figures.

TRONGATE ELEVATION: detailed as Glassford Street without

left-hand door and stair window bay; glazing to 3 arches

at round.

REAR ELEVATION: ashlar with tall panelled stack rising

from 3rd floor. Steep pyramidal roof and wrought-iron

cresting.

Small-pane casement windows. Slated French pyramid

roof with decorative iron ridge railings.

Interior modernised.

Statement of Special Interest

Built on site of Shawfield Mansion, by Colen Campbell,

1712, destroyed 1793, and bears a plaque commemorating

this fact. Model exhibited at RSA 1902. Builders were

Muir and Son, Glasgow.

References

Bibliography

B June 20th 1903. BJ Nov 28th, 1906. Information

courtesy of Buildings of Scotland Research Unit.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

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