Clyde Place House, Clyde Place Square, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 July 1990. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.

Clyde Place House, Clyde Place Square, Glasgow

WRENN ID
tall-casement-hawthorn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 July 1990
Type
Commercial building
Address
Clyde Place House, Clyde Place Square, Glasgow, G5 8AQ
OS grid reference
NS 585 647
Coordinates
55.85489, -4.26166
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Also on this page: related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Clyde Place House, built in 1878, is a manufacturing and commercial building that served as a model lodging house from 1883 to after 1927, with ground floor shops and a public house. It is a four-storey structure with a basement and attic, measuring 15 by eight bays. The facades facing Clyde Place and Centre Street are made of ashlar with pilaster piers, while the rear is constructed of brick.

The street-facing elevation features ground floor shopfronts that are now blocked between timber-clad cast-iron columns. The upper floors have recessed bays between timber piers, and the aprons of the second floor are ornately carved. A main dentil cornice runs along the top, and octagonal pinnacles that once capped each pair of bays now only survive at the corners.

The rear of the building is plain brick, with sets of blocked triple lights and the gable of a demolished neighboring structure. A later lift tower has been added at the southwest corner. The roof is flat with mansard slopes on the sides, which were likely originally slated and featured larger skylights. Windows rise with a weather vane, and there is a cobbled wharf with small mooring posts on timber piles.

Local climate

Clyde Place House, Clyde Place 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Iron Gate, George V Bridge, Glasgow Grade B 193 m
  2. 20, 22 Bridge Street, Glasgow Grade B 209 m
  3. 1, 3 Bridge Street, Glasgow Grade B 236 m
  4. Bonded Store, 9 Oswald Street, Glasgow Grade B 237 m
  5. Bridge Street Station, 36, 38, 40 Bridge Street, Glasgow Grade B 240 m
  6. Clyde Port Authority, 16 Robertson Street, Glasgow Grade A 246 m
  7. Bridge Street Station, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52 Bridge Street, Glasgow Grade B 251 m
  8. Hose Tower, Southern Fire Station, Wallace Street, Glasgow Grade B 263 m
  9. 180E Centre Street, Glasgow Grade B 263 m
  10. The Laurieston Bar, 58 Bridge Street And 2 And 4 Nelson Street Grade C 272 m