Hydraulic Power Station, Queen's Dock, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Pump station. 2 related planning applications.
Hydraulic Power Station, Queen's Dock, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- crooked-doorway-shade
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Pump station
- Address
- Hydraulic Power Station, Queen's Dock, Glasgow, G3 8QQ
- OS grid reference
- NS 563 656
- Coordinates
- 55.86227, -4.29675
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Hydraulic Power Station at Queen's Dock in Glasgow was built by John Carrick between 1877 and 1878. It is designed in an Italianate style and features a T-plan layout with a four-stage 'campanile' accumulator tower located at the northwest corner. The building consists of six by three bays and is constructed from coursed ashlar stone, with ashlar angle quoins, surrounds, and fanned voussoirs above the openings. The openings are plain and round-headed, with three unequal bays on the south section, which is oriented east-west and has regular windows along with a band course at the impost level. Both faces of this section have pediments, and there is a sculpted panel in the tympanum. The north section has three bays with keyblocked windows.
The four-stage tower is detailed with a band course at each level and a moulded cornice at the second stage. Each face of the tower features a bracketed cornice above a clock.
Replacement windows have been installed, which match the original top-hopper pattern. The interior of the building has not been seen.
Local climate
Hydraulic Power Station, Queen's Dock, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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