The Tobacco Merchant's House:
Classically styled house, along Palladian lines. Designed by architect John Craig for himself in 1775. The building is on similar lines to many of the classical houses which used to occupy this part of Glasgow and many of which were occupied by the tobacco lairds. The building is the last of it's type still standing in the Merchant city area of Glasgow. The building was extensively restored in the mid-1990s by the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust who along with the Scottish Civic Trust currently are based at this address. The building is A listed.
street address: 42 Miller Street, Glasgow G1 1DT
Latitude / Longitude: 55.858732,-4.250904 (sourced using Google Maps)
west front elevation on Miller Street, with the 5 bay symmetrical frontage and the 2 full storeys and basement below. Whilst the front is dressed stone the roughcast north side of the building can be seen to the left of the photograph.
view north up Miller Street, the neighbouring building, north of 42 Miller Street is the former Stirling Library (1863-65) which has recently been converted to flats.
central portion of the west elevation
main doorway flanked by individual pilasters
ground floor window bay and basement windows below with metal protective bars
view up west front facade
commemorative plaque
view up the west elevation
rear (east) elevation onto the courtyard behind the building, and the archway which leads past the building back onto Miller Street
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