Architecture Notes

Event ID 772268

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NS66SW 111 6088 6296.

Glasgow, 49 Solway Street

This was built from 1902 for Carson's Ltd., chocolate manufacturers. Hume notes that the main three-storey, thirty bay building was built in two stages; in 1904 (first two storeys) with a third storey being added in 1910 (Duncan and Copland were the architects). There is a four storey attic and basement, seven by seven bay block at the western end. At the east end there is a large circular section chimney and a two storey three by seven bay office block.

JR Hume 1974

The complex was much reduced in size and the remaining buildings in use as a leather works on the date of visit.

Visited by RCAHMS (MKO) 4 September 1996