Old Sheriff Court, Glasgow

The Old Sheriff Court is a former municipal and judicial building in Wilson Street, Glasgow, Scotland.

[5] The southern section, forming the city and county buildings, and the central section, forming the Merchant's House, were designed by Clarke & Bell in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and were completed in 1844.

[1] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage facing onto the Wilson Street; the central section was formed by a stylobate on which was placed a full-height hexastyle portico with Ionic order columns supporting an entablature, a frieze and a pediment.

[3] The southern section was extended to the north to connect with the central section to a design by Clarke & Bell between 1868 and 1871 and the complex was extended further north to Ingram Street to a design by Clarke & Bell to create larger council chambers and municipal offices for the city council which opened on 24 February 1874.

[11] The building was the subject of a major programme of restoration works carried out on behalf of Persimmon to a design by SMC Parr Architects in 2005.