Telephone Exchange:
Built in the 1930s, architect unknown. Currently derelict this large red brick building sits isolated on the corner of Centre Street and Cook Street in the Tradeston area of the city. The building is B-listed.
street address: 243 Centre Street, Glasgow, G5 8ED
Latitude / Longitude: 55.851222,-4.262376 (sourced using Google Maps)
site visit date: 13 March 2011
front (west) and south elevations, showing the rectangular plan building with its high quality red brick construction and stone detailing, base etc (13/03/2011)
front (west) elevation on Centre Street (13/03/2011)
the long sealed doorway on the front (west) elevation on Centre Street with doric columns to each side of the wide doorway (13/03/2011)
elaborate scroll details draped around the round windows on the front facade (13/03/2011)
view looking west down Cook Street of the long south elevation and the shorter east elevation (with huge graffiti letters in white) where the building adjoins the white warehouse to its rear (13/03/2011)
ground floor window detail at the east end of the south elevation (13/03/2011)
view of the central window bays on the south elevation, each set of windows is flanked by brick pilasters ascending the floors (13/03/2011)
smashed glass of the upper windows on the south elevation (13/03/2011)
more smashed windows along the south facade (13/03/2011)
west (front) facade and the common brick north elevation with fire escape staircase at the far end. At the front of the north elevation the sloped roofline of the long-gone neighbouring building is still visible (13/03/2011)
north elevation, which would have originally been hidden by the long since demolished building which would have stood on the waste ground where this photograph was taken from (13/03/2011)
north facing and east facing parts (13/03/2011)
back to top
- home - building index - about - web links - contact -
www.architectureglasgow.co.uk www.derelictglasgow.co.uk