16, 18, 20 Kelvingrove Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.
16, 18, 20 Kelvingrove Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- slow-cellar-ridge
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 16, 18, 20 Kelvingrove Street, Glasgow, G3 7RX
- OS grid reference
- NS 571 659
- Coordinates
- 55.86513, -4.28386
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 16, 18, and 20 Kelvingrove Street in Glasgow, dates from around 1854 and is a four-storey classical tenement featuring five by sixteen bays. The ground floor includes shops arranged in five by eight bays, with some original features still intact. The bays on Kelvingrove Street are arranged in an eight by eight pattern and step down the slope of the street. The structure is made of ashlar stone, with channelled detailing and flat voussoirs at No 4 Kelvingrove Street.
At No 12 Kelvingrove Street, there is a pilastered and corniced close entry. The windows are primarily sash and case style with 12-pane glazing, although the first floor has been altered to include leaded T-pane casements in a five by three corner section at the northern end of Kelvingrove Street. The ground floor features a fascia and a cornice above the pilastered shop at the north end.
The first floor has a cill band and corniced windows set within lugged architraves, while the second floor windows also have lugged architraves and a cill band. The third floor features recessed margins and a cill band. The building has an eaves cornice and a parapet, along with corniced axial stacks and a slate roof.
Local climate
16, 18, 20 Kelvingrove 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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- 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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