118, Tradeston Street, Tradeston

Part of a complex in six sections. 4-storey 8-by 4-bay corner warehouse in brick Venetian Gothic style. Ground floor pointed arched, wooden-framed, windows with cill string course. 3 pointed arched doorways, 2 to Tradeston Street, one of which has been widened. Corner has terracotta stag's head plaques. Tall lancets rise through 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors with cill string courses at 1st and 2nd floors. Narrow corbelled pilaster strips between each lancet. Blank rear. Machicolated parapet raised at corner with stone quatrefoils, crenellation removed. Corner tower has 4 narrow lancets, machicolation and Ghibelline crenellation. Interior: Iron columns, steel girders and corrugated iron and concrete floors. Timber attic. Slate roof.

Owned by Blacklock and MacArthur, founded 1876, largely rebuilt 1888. Slogan: "Ask for the stag brand". Later ICI. The former offices and sample room of 1876 at 161-177 West Street, and a similar block between the offices and Tradeston Paint Mills, were demolished 2002 and replaced with modern timber-faced residential block associated with housing conversion at no 133 Wallace Street . (Historic Scotland)

Aug 90: Owning company in liquidation and warehouse vacant. Will probably go on market soon. Jan. 1991: sold to new owner who ntends to restore.
Jan 95: close to, but not affected by M74 pplication.
Oct 95: no change.
Jan 00: converted to a computer warehouse. Set to SAVED. November 2007: External inspection reveals the building to be derelict. A number of the windows are broken. Setting back to AT RISK.

April 2009: Site visit finds that the building remains disused. It appears to be in much the same condition as at our previous visit.

December 2010: External inspection again finds no significant change to outward appearance.

14 August 2013: External inspection finds some re-occupation of the building and new glazing/ security doors to the ground level. As a whole, the building remains relatively unchanged in condition.

2 March 2023: External inspection finds that the building remains in fair condition but appears to not be in active use. The vegetation visible in images from the previous field visit in 2013 has been removed. The brick at the southwest and northeast corners is decaying around the downpipes. There are a few pieces of broken glazing and the frames of upper windows are showing signs of weathering. There is graffiti on the tower and some of the ground level opening coverings. Building appears to generally be secured.