55-57 Cochrane Street, Glasgow is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. Corner building.

55-57 Cochrane Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
shifting-dormer-gold
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 September 1989
Type
Corner building
Address
55-57 Cochrane Street, Glasgow, G1 1HL
OS grid reference
NS 593 653
Coordinates
55.86042, -4.24883
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a four-storey and basement corner building located at 55-57 Cochrane Street in Glasgow, dating from around 1820. It features five bays along Cochrane Street, with a canted angle and three bays on South Frederick Street. The building is constructed of painted ashlar. At the corner, there is a door set within a columned and pilastered doorpiece. The ground floor openings have undergone some alterations. Above, each bay is fitted with windows that are framed in architraves and are of the sash and case type. There is a cornice above the second floor, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course along Cochrane Street, with a pedimented gable facing South Frederick Street. The roof is covered with slate.

Local climate

55-57 Cochrane Street, 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 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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