2-5 La Belle Place Glasgow, Scotland
Listed Building Data
2-5 La Belle Place 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 376489 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 33083
- Canmore ID
- 172260
- Category
- A
- Name
- 2 5 (inclusive Nos) La Belle Place
- Parish
- Glasgow
- County
- Glasgow, City Of
- Easting
- 257449
- Northing
- 666062
- Date Listed
- 15 December 1970
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Charles Wilson, 1857. 3 storey, Italianate tenement thematically linked to adjacent Queen's Rooms. (First Church of Christ Scientist). 8 main bays stepped down slope and arranged in 2-bay house sections. Single return bay to W. Ashlar. Coupled pilaster doorpieces at head of flight of stone steps, framing recessed entrances with fanlights and sidelights. Canted 1st and 4th bays from E, projecting square tripartite corniced bays in 5th and 8th. Semi-circular sculpted shell or floral panels with flanking paternae above main openings on ground and 1st floor. All windows sash and case in architraves. Basement band course; chamfered podia at ground floor; 1st and 2nd floor moulded cill bands. Eaves modillion cornice, parapet. Western return bay repeating main elevation window arrangement. Axial and gable stacks. Slate roof.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Listed category A for the important relationship with the former Queen's Rooms and the particularly clever juxtaposition of scales. Upgraded B to A 21.7.88
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Plans SNMR dated March 1857; Gomme and Walker, 1968 pp 99, 292.
