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M026 Skin and Hide Market

Address: Greendyke Street, Glasgow G1 5PS
Date: 1889–91; 1891–2
Client: Robert Ramsey
Authorship:

(Office with Mackintosh)

This impressive building consisting of offices and warehousing around an iron-and-glass-roofed yard was built for Robert Ramsey & Co., dealers in wool, hides and other cattle and sheep products. Only the front part survives. It was converted into flats between 1998 and 2000.

Authorship: The design is probably by John Keppie: its classicism shows evidence of his time in the office of James Sellars and his studies in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts. Mackintosh's handwriting appears on one of the drawings, in a minor annotation relating to the roof.

Alternative addresses:: Dales Lane; Dyers Lane

Cost from office job book: Phase 1: £12,407 17s 10½d; Phase 2: £4271 8s 11½d

Status: Front part standing, rear part demolished

Current name: 34–39 Greendyke Street

Current use: Residential (2014)

Listing category: B

Historic Scotland/HB Number: HB Number 32716

RCAHMS Site Number: NS56SE 129

Grid Reference: NS 59642 64589

GPS coordinates: lat = 55.853854, lng = -4.243695 (Map)

'Mackintosh Architecture' led by The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; with additional support from The Monument Trust, The Pilgrim Trust, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; and collaborative input from Historic Scotland and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.