72-80 (Even) Gordon Street, Grosvenor Building Glasgow, Scotland
Listed Building Data
72-80 (Even) Gordon Street, Grosvenor Building has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 376408 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 33034
- Canmore ID
- 141408
- Category
- A
- Name
- 72 80 (even Nos) Gordon Street, Grosvenor Building
- Parish
- Glasgow
- County
- Glasgow, City Of
- Easting
- 258793
- Northing
- 665372
- Date Listed
- 15 December 1970
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Alexander Thomson (A and G Thomson), 1864, with later additional storeys by J H Craigie, 1902-07. 1st-3rd floors with distinctive Thomsonesque Greek details. 6 storeys and attic with modern shops at ground floor. 15 bays. Polished ashlar. Mostly casement windows. 1ST FLOOR: pilaster aedicule windows on continuous incised podium breaking forward at bases; each window has incised ornament at frieze and projecting cornice with antefixae and acroters; dado with anthemion and palmette; frieze sculpted anthemion separating bays; blind aedicules in outer bays. 2ND FLOOR: stylised pilaster order with recessed glazing; blind outer bays with geometric incised design; entablature with disc and anthemion and palmette frieze, projecting cornice. 3RD FLOOR: former eaves gallery supported on sculpted consoles; geometric Greek and incised star and disc frieze; cornice. 4th and 5th floor on continuous podium; elaborate Edwardian Graeco- Baroque top hammer. Bays arranged 1-3-2-3-2-3-1: 2 outer, 1 central with tetrastyle Ionic fluted attached porticos, pedimented in centre; pilaster architraved to 4th floor with mutual cornice; pilasters dividing bays rising through 4th and 5th floors. Main cornice with full entablature. Central 3-bay window with elaborate central aedicule in attic storey 3-bay cupolas over exaggerated attic windows in outer bays with 3-lights separated by carved consoles, broken, shaped cornice above cut by single light corniced windows. Set-back dormers.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Upgraded B to A 21.7.88
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
APSD. S R Archives, D of G (DOPW 19) 21 July 1864, A and G Thomson given permission "to re-erect or alter a tenement recently destroyed by fire in Gordon Street". MacFadzean, Thomson (illustration prior to addition of top storeys). S R Archives D of G1/9049 (1902)
