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Leyland Motor Company (Former)
Date 19 September 2012
Event ID 928476
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/928476
2-storey 7-by 8-bay block, brick and concrete. Prominent curved corner tower, faience, with fluted projecting pilasters. 2 door with wrought-iron gates under flat canopy. 1st floor modern windows (orignally curved) and 2 curved side balconies with iron railings. Flanking faience panels. A tall octagonal window to each side, then large multi-paned metal-framed ground and 1st floor windows separated by fluted faience pilasters. End bay at Mauchline Street a door. High parapet and flat roof. Vestibule: 2 art deco columns with horizontal ribs and curved up-turned light-fittings, part covered with new flock wallpaper. Wooden panelling to stair. Other rooms plain.
Built for Leyland Motor Co (address 5 Mauchline Street), there from 1922-1955. List excludes garages to rear. The faience has been covered
by cement render. Tower originally had 3 tiers of curved windows. (Historic Scotland)
