Buck’s Head Greek Thomson Glasgow, Scotland, Date, Title, Address, 63 Argyle Street architecture

Buck’s Head Glasgow : Alexander Thomson Building

Historic Landmark Scottish project on Argyle Street – 19th Century Architecture in Strathclyde

post updated 6 Mar 2021

Location: 63 Argyle St, Glasgow city centre

Dates built: 1862-63; 1868

Architect: Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson

63 Argyle Street property photographs © Adrian Welch

Historic Argyle Street Building

Buck’s Head Building

63 Argyle Street building photo © Adrian Welch

The 63 Argyle Street property was named after sculpture of a deer buck on top by John Mossman. The historic building renovation was completed 2003.

Location: corner of Argyle Street and Dunlop Street

photograph © Lirazelf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

This commercial building was extended in 1864 in similar style to S, in Dunlop Street W only 3 bays remaining. 4-storey and attic, fine essay in wood-encased, masonry-concealed cast-iron framing, with Egyptian details. Painted ashlar. Modern shop fronts at ground with frieze and 1st floor cill course.

This roperty was built on site of the former Buck’s Head Hotel. The building design forms a watershed in structural logic, iron-framed (McConnell’s patent) and disguised yet with applied iron columns. Alexander Thomson’s warehouse designs made reference to those of fellow Scottish architect David Hamilton.

Similar ornament was employed earlier by Thomson at Grosvenor Building (1859) and the Cairney Buildings (1860), and later at the Grecian Building (1865) and the Egyptian Halls (1871-3), Glasgow. The modern extension to S in Dunlop Street has followed the 1864 design in a more severe and lower key.
source: https://canmore.org.uk/site/133589/glasgow-63-argyle-street-bucks-head-building

Alexander Thomson architect, aka Greek Thomson

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