Glass Houses, Queen's Park, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 December 1989. Glass house. 2 related planning applications.

Glass Houses, Queen's Park, Glasgow

WRENN ID
ragged-finial-fern
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South MP: Gordon McKee (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 December 1989
Type
Glass house
Address
Glass Houses, Queen's Park, Glasgow, G42 9QL
OS grid reference
NS 578 618
Coordinates
55.82878, -4.27068
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Glass Houses in Queen's Park, Glasgow, were built in 1905 by the Office of Public Works as part of a municipal park. The structure features a central dome at the south entrance, with a gabled center and symmetrical flanking ranges. The layout consists of a series of parallel east-west oriented ranges that extend at right angles from a full-length central linking range. The glass houses are fully glazed above red brick dwarf walls, with ironwork by Simpson and Farmer, horticultural builders from Glasgow, which is inscribed. It is likely that more ranges were originally iron-crested than are present today. To the east, there is a red-brick boiler house and associated ranges at a lower level, along with a square-plan chimney stack that has an integral rainwater tank attached. The roofs are slated, and the windows are sash.

Local climate

Glass Houses, Queen's Park, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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