32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 Queen Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. Commercial. 15 related planning applications.

32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 Queen Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
lesser-pillar-hyssop
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 September 1989
Type
Commercial
Address
32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 Queen Street, Glasgow, G1 3DX
OS grid reference
NS 591 651
Coordinates
55.85867, -4.25189
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 Queen Street in Glasgow is a seven-storey, seven-bay building designed by Thomson and Sandilands between 1912 and 1914. It features a free composition style with Baroque details, constructed from red sandstone ashlar. The ground floor has modern shop fronts, while the central entrance is marked by a keystoned arch that reaches the height of the first-floor lintels. Above this entrance is a tripartite window at the first floor, framed by a swagged surround and a consoled balcony that supports urn finials on either side of the second floor.

The first floor is capped by a cornice, and the second floor showcases channelled ashlar with tripartite, keystoned windows that have segmental hoodmoulds above the central lights, except for the outer bays. The central five bays feature set-back shallow canted windows on the third, fourth, and fifth floors, which are separated by giant fluted attached Ionic columns on pedestals. Below the fourth floor, there are carved wreaths and keystoned windows, topped by a modillioned cornice that includes a balcony above the fifth floor's central bays, leading to a balustraded parapet with dies.

The outer bays are flanked by pilaster strips and have breaking eaves at the aediculed end bays, which also terminate in a balustraded parapet. Decorative cast-bronze cartouches and details adorn the railed balconies above the main entrance and the fifth floor. The building features casement and sash and case windows, with brick and harled side elevations. The rear courts are finished with glazed bricks and distinctive square-pane glazing for the windows.

Local climate

32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 Queen 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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