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Summary

Description

James Sellars, 1874. 3-storey, mezzanine and basement

5-bay office building, with attic storey added later.

Cream ashlar sandstone; vermiculated channelling

alternating with ashlar bands at ground, and to quoins,

cornice above ground floor; guilloche cill course at 2nd

floor; decorative eaves brackets, grouped in 3s and 4s,

to original mutuled main cornice. Round-arched entrance

with masqued keystone moulded architrave and guilloche

frieze; decorative wrought-iron 2-leaf gates and overthrow,

and window guards to ground floor bipartite windows;

swagged panels above bipartites, with mezzanine storey above.

Aediculed windows at 1st floor each with balustraded balcony

and segmental shell pediments; architraved 2nd floor and attic

windows. Pilasters on panelled dies dividing attic windows

modillioned cornice. Rear to Anchor Lane.

Plate glass glazing pattern, with some top-hopper windows.

Statement of Special Interest

Forms the central of three blocks closing George Square to

W, in a style begun by J T Rochead in 1869 in his design for

2 St Vincent Place, and completed in J Burnet's Merchant's

House to N, in a continuous Italian Palazzo style (both

listed separately).

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