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Former British Linen Company Bank, 215 High Street:
The building is dated 1895, and formerly the British Linen Company Bank, the ground floor is still liveried with Robert Bell fruit merchant, but is currently vacant. The upper two floors are currently occupied and comprise of residential accomodation. A highly detailed red sandstone building, with a wooden turret on the north-east corner, a statue overlooking the front (east) High Street facade, and down the north elevation the building steps down to a single storey, then back up to a two storey west end of the structure. Overrall it is a unique, decorative and detailed small building now sitting isolated on High Street. The site opposite of the former High Street goods yard was long vacant but has recently been developed with large scale student accomodation blocks. The adjacent site to the south is currently vacant, the site to the north is the somewhat run down Old College Bar with very decayed buildings at the end of that site (see photographs). The first and second floors are accessed through a gated entrance on the north elevation, a stairway then provides access to these areas of the building. Category B listed.

street address: 215 High Street, Glasgow, G1 1QB
Latitude / Longitude: 55.860049,-4.240467 (sourced using Google Maps)

High Street front (east) elevation and the former party wall of the south blank elevation

east elevation

ground floor former bank and latterly Robert Bell fruit merchant premises

carved coat of arms on the east elevation

building date carved over the large east elevation ground floor shop window

view looking up at the south-east corner, with stepped walls at the end of the sloped roof

statue and wooden turret

diamond window of the attic on the east facade

statue close-up

wooden turret

north-east corner and view down Nicholas Street, down the side of the building

view up the north elevation at the entrance to Nicholas Street

view up the north elevation looking east back towards High Street

Thomas Campbell Commemorative bronze plaque set into the north facade

north elevation curves back after the main 3 storey part of the building gives way to a lower back part

window detail

view down the second half of the north facade

gated entrance to the residential accomodation

view east back up Nicholas Street of the rear of the building

decayed rear of the buildings on the north side of Nicholas Lane opposite our building

view from a distance of the south-west rear corner of the building

south elevation

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