38, 40, 42, 44 St Enoch Square, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 July 1988. Commercial building. 4 related planning applications.
38, 40, 42, 44 St Enoch Square, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- sunken-cupola-storm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1988
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 38, 40, 42, 44 St Enoch Square, Glasgow, G1 4DF
- OS grid reference
- NS 588 649
- Coordinates
- 55.85733, -4.25594
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
38, 40, 42, 44 St Enoch Square in Glasgow is a six-storey, five-bay commercial building designed by Robert Thomson around 1870, with later additions of a fifth and sixth floor possibly from the 1880s. The building features a polished ashlar facade with vermiculated quoins on the first and second floors, and inset sculpted masks placed between the floors. The entrance has a segmentally pedimented doorpiece, and there is elaborate sculpture, including granite shafts for the outer colonettes and pilasters, as well as a sculpted frieze and tympanum with a head.
All the windows are sash and case with plate glass. The first-floor windows are consoled and segmentally pedimented, adorned with sculpted tympana. The second floor has floating cornices with ogee-headed panels and sculpted heads above, along with a cornice featuring a sculpted frieze. The third floor showcases arched windows set within panelled pilasters. The cornice is consoled and tripled in the central bays, with dentils. The fourth floor has a central window flanked by superimposed pilasters, while the outer sections are arcaded with recessed glazing. The fifth floor features aediculed windows that are raised and pedimented in the center. The ground floor has been modernized with shops.
Local climate
38, 40, 42, 44 St Enoch Square, 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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