Glasgow Herald Building, 63-69 Buchanan Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Commercial building. 9 related planning applications.
Glasgow Herald Building, 63-69 Buchanan Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- little-groin-lichen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Glasgow Herald Building, 63-69 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, G1 3HL
- OS grid reference
- NS 589 652
- Coordinates
- 55.8595, -4.25496
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Glasgow Herald Building, located at 63-69 Buchanan Street in Glasgow, was designed by James Sellars of Campbell Douglas and Sellars in 1879. This four-storey and attic commercial building features a modern ground floor. It has three main bays with two narrower outer bays above.
The mezzanine level includes an arched head above the ground floor doorpiece that projects into the space, along with panels depicting putti in relief holding a newspaper. A striking feature of the building is the giant order of Corinthian columns that rise through the first and second floors, with a recessed central bay flanked by fluted columns. The outer main bays are slightly canted. The third floor has narrow bays that are set back behind a balustrade adorned with statuary. Additionally, there are three square projecting windows in the outer main bays, each topped with aediculed dormers above.
Local climate
Glasgow Herald Building, 63-69 Buchanan Street, Glasgow 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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