Watt Brothers, 119-121, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

2-part offices and department store with linking archway. 4-storey classical corner building, 3- by 8-bays, with podium-effect and with twin Italianate towers to Sauchiehall Street. Lower floors united materially with glass curtain wall to street (display windows) with fluted dividing metal frieze and deep polished granite fascia above 1st floor, creating apparently airy podium for more solid super-structure. 2nd and 3rd floors united in red sandstone ashlar with channelled pilaster strips and giant order piers between floors dividing bays, entablature (mutuled cornice) and blocking course.

27 January 2023: Property vacant since 2019. Planning permission to convert the premises into a hotel has been refused (22/00897/FUL)

24 August 2023: External inspection finds one shop unit to be in use, but the remainder of the building to appear vacant. There are signs of damp in the masonry of the east elevations where discolouration and salt deposits are visible. Some vegetation growth is noted in the masonry of the north block. A window on the east elevation of the north block is boarded up internally and several glazing panes are cracked in both buildings. Marketing signage is posted for sale via Breck Property Consultants. Move to At Risk.

Post Survey Update: Local planners applications for partial use of the building as hotel were refused in Sept 2022 (22/00897/FUL &
22/00896/LBA)