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
architect, aka Greek Thomson
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