Listed Building: City Buildings (2/602)

Warehouse. 1900 by Alexander Ellis Anderson for Malcolm Inglis and Company, Glasgow. Red brick and Weldon Stone ashlar. Slate roof. Brick lateral stacks. Rectangular on plan on corner site with main entrance at the corner. Wrennaissance style. 4 storeys, attic and basement. 6.5 bays to Fish Street and 3.5 bays to The Riding. Rusticated ashlar ground floor with entablature with large cornice and round arch doorway in bay 4 of west front end. Main entrance doorway on left hand (NW) corner with se . py on acanthus brackets with finely carved armorial bearings on soffit and draped female figures above carved by A Broadbent of London (sculptor). Curved corner panel above doorway inscribed 'Malcolm Inglis and Company, Glasgow' with flanking pilasters having bulls' heads over arms of various cities, and round third floor window with carved festoons around and inscription 'est 1796' below. The first, second and third floor bays are divided by giant rusticated pilasters (brick o . upporting a heavy moulded entablature with modillions, and have segmental headed windows with 2-light sashes. attic storey has rusticated stone window architraves and brick pilasters over which the cornice above breaks forward. Plain rear (east) elevation. Interior: Floors supported on cast iron columns. Wide mahogany and oak open well staircase at rear centre. Attic storey open to roof with queen post trusses. Source: A E Anderson, Malcolm Inglis and Company, Souvenir, May 25 . 1791-4 by Robert Furze Brettingham; enlarged by James Milne, 1864. Ashlar, hipped Welsh slated roof. 3 storeys, recessed west wing. North elevation has 5:3 sash windows in reveals under flat arches. Cornice, 2nd floor level cornice band. Judge's Lodgings, Sessions House, County Hall, County Council Offices and Nos 8, 8A, 9 and 9A form a group.

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