25 AND 27 PAISLEY ROAD WEST AND 1, 7, 9 AND 11 STANLEY STREET (Ref:33541)This building is in the Glasgow, City Of Council and the Glasgow Burgh. It is a category B building and was listed on 29/03/1995.
Group Items: N/A, Group Cat: N/A, Map Ref: NS 5738 6460.
Description
Late 19th century. Plain classical 4-storey tenement, 4-bay by 15-bay with shop and bank at ground to corner block. Cream sandstone ashlar; base course; channelled masonry to Nos 7-11 Stanley Street at ground; polished granite, glazed pilastrade to corner bank with deep fascia and unifying cornice, curved panel to angle; raised margins to windows above ground and cornices to those 1st and 2nd floors. Wallhead cornice and blocking course with moulded guttering.N (PAISLEY ROAD WEST) ELEVATION: 4-bay. Main door to bank in bay to left of centre, columned doorpiece (polished pink granite columns) bearing bracketed balustraded stone window guard to 1st floor window flanked by panelled dies and ball finials; modern door. Tripartite pilstrade to right and door and window to shop to outer left. Ornate heraldic corner piece above bank front at 1st floor, comprising lion and unicorn flanking shield, painted and gilded. Regular fenestration above ground.W (STANLEY STREET) ELEVATION: 15 bays. 6 bays to left slightly advanced with 7-part pilastraded bank including door to outer right; fenestration above with blind windows to each floor of wider outer left bay, regular fenestration to remaining. 9 bays of tenement to right with doors in 3rd, 5th and 7th bays and regular fenestration to floors above.8-pane timber sash and case windows predominating in tenement, some plate glass sash and case interspersed and tilt and turn modern windows above bank at 1st floor. Wallhead truncated ashlar stacks and brick stacks to mutual gables.INTERIOR: good classical bank interior; panelled timber counter with carved lion brackets dividing; panelled wainscot with pulvinated frieze and cornice, swan-neck pediment over door to washroom. Columns at intervals with Corinthian capitals. Fine classical timber clock case en suite with pilasters supporting segmental cornice, sited to rear of bank office above wainscot. Compartmentalised ceiling with decorative plasterwork and modillioned cornice.
Notes
Listed at Category B in consideration of good period bank interior.
Looks like a) The coat of Arms is something to do with the Bank, after all,
b) The original doorway is stil there, with the marble columns etc.
c) If this was listed for the reasons mentioned, what happened to the interior when the convenience stores opened?
So now I'm back to the PO Directories to find out which bank it was (and why it was allowed to use the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom as used in Scotland). And also when the use changed, as the B listing was in 1995.
Anyone been inside this shop to see what survives of the original interior?
