90 Maxwell Street is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.

90 Maxwell Street

WRENN ID
narrow-frieze-ivory
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 September 1989
Type
Commercial building
Address
90 Maxwell Street, G1 4EQ
OS grid reference
NS 590 648
Coordinates
55.85624, -4.25402
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

90 Maxwell Street is a commercial building dating from around 1868, consisting of two phases. The Maxwell Street elevation features a four-storey structure with a basement and has 11 bays. The building is constructed of ashlar, which is painted at the ground level. At the center, there is a pilastered doorpiece with a fanlight, flanked by altered windows. Additional simple doorways are located in the outer right bay and the third bay from the left.

Above the ground floor, there is a frieze and a moulded cornice. The upper floors are arranged in a 3-5-3 grouping and are divided by giant pilaster strips with cill or string courses. The windows on the first and second floors have broad pilaster divides, while the third floor features flanking architraved, round-arched bipartite windows. The building has a deep moulded eaves cornice and end stacks, topped with a slate roof.

The windows are sash and case, with plate-glass glazing on the lower sashes and two-light configurations on the upper windows of the first and second floors. Decorative iron railings adorn the aprons of the ground floor windows and the basement openings.

Local climate

90 Maxwell Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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