Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 566679
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/566679
Tusk Restaurant and Bar, 18 Moss-side Road, 1923, Watson, Salmond & Gray
Built as Waverley Cinema; converted 2002, United Design, to Tea Room, Bar and Restaurant. Large red ashlar corner block, in diluted 17th-century classical style. Lead-covered dome above south-east corner entrance, flanked by giant Egyptian columns. Sculptured roundels over inner windows to Frankfort Street. Slate-roofed attic storey behind main cornice. The same firm's extension to the City Chambers (see Central Glasgow Guide) was built about the same time.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
