Scotway House:
Building date: 1885, and originally constructed to be a drawing office for Meadowside Shipyard by Bruce and Hay architects. A two storey structure with an attic floor. Constructed of brick with polychromatic details on the side and rear elevations, and ashlar details on the front elevation around the windows, doors and edges. Reminescent of french chateau style designs the front elevation is symmetrical and not straight, rather it is a very shallow V plan shape. Located part-way between the new transport museum and the new harbour flats, the building sits isolated beside the expressway. Recently I was told that Strathclyde Building Preservation Trust had carried out a feasibility study (july 2011) for the building to become a national music attraction, so maybe it will be saved from its current dereliction. Category B listing.
street address: 165 Castlebank Street, Glasgow, G11 6AT
Latitude / Longitude: 55.867896,-4.30798 (sourced using Google Maps)
site visit dates: 13 February 2011 & 14 June 2011
looking east, along the front elevation, boarded up and resembling an abandoned french chateau (13/02/2011)
main doorway (13/02/2011)
hexagonal bolt-like socle details at the base of the columns either side of the doorway (13/02/2011)
french chateau-style 'hat' crowns the entrance (13/02/2011)
window bays broken up by the occasional solid sandstone bay (13/02/2011)
square and round columns (13/02/2011)
looking east back down the front elevation, with round brick vent detail on the short west elevation (13/02/2011)
view from across the Clyde with the new Transport Museum to the right (14/06/2011)
south-east elevations (14/06/2011)
south elevation (14/06/2011)
west and south elevations close up with the various extensions/out-buildings to the west (14/06/2011)
central portion of rear (south) elevation (14/06/2011)
bay window at west end of south elevation (14/06/2011)
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