527, 529, 531 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Tenement. 4 related planning applications.
527, 529, 531 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- watchful-doorway-elder
- 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
- 527, 529, 531 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G3 7PQ
- OS grid reference
- NS 578 659
- Coordinates
- 55.86607, -4.27236
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
527, 529, and 531 Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow is a classical three-storey tenement building designed by Charles Wilson in 1853. It is situated on the corner with modern shops and an Edwardian bank at the northeast corner. The building features 15 unequal bays arranged in a pattern of 5-5-5 on the main elevation, constructed from polished ashlar.
The windows on Sauchiehall Street include two-light windows in the 3rd and 13th bays, three-light windows in the 6th and 10th bays, and a four-light window in the 8th bay. On North Street, the first and 7th bays have three-light windows, with three centre windows grouped together. The building has sash and case windows throughout.
Notable architectural details include a cornice at the ground floor, a cill band at the first floor, and architraved windows with console cornices, featuring raised shell tympana above the centre windows of each block. The second floor has a moulded cill band and architraved windows, along with a bracketted cornice. The building is topped with a blocking course and corniced ridge stacks, with one reduced wallhead stack located in the westmost section facing Sauchiehall Street.
Local climate
527, 529, 531 Sauchiehall 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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- 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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