We have recently finished works to restore the Cat B Listed Building at 280 George Street, Glasgow from a disused council office building into 12No private apartments. We have also completed the shell for a ground floor leisure unit which will bring darts themed bar and restaurant Flight Club to the city.

Our site team managed the preservation of all aspects of the building. Great care and consideration was taken to ensure that as many original and interesting details are preserved internally as possible. One particularly important aspect of restoration is the ceiling in the old ‘tax hall’. This highly detailed ceiling with multiple cornices and ceiling roses was restored and repaired by our specialist subcontractor Halcyon Cornice.

Due to the historic nature and listed status of this building, this project entailed several complications for our site team. One challenge our team had to overcome included raising the floors by 150mm to accommodate new acoustic flooring to minimise the noise coming from the ground floor venue. The internal roof also suffered from rot and had to be temporarily covered to dry out. Specialists then periodically checked this to ascertain whether the roof needed to be entirely replaced.

Historic Scotland also visited the project a number of times due to some interesting discoveries made by our site team. A dumb waiter that stretched the full height of the building was removed along with a hydraulic-powered ‘rack slide valve’ which was found in the building’s basement during downtaking works. Read more about the discovery here.

The images below show the completed apartments, courtesy of Mac Mic Group.