R F And J Alexander's Cotton Spinning Mill, 100 Duke Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1993. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
R F And J Alexander's Cotton Spinning Mill, 100 Duke Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- waning-rampart-grove
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North East MP: Maureen Burke (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1993
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- R F And J Alexander's Cotton Spinning Mill, 100 Duke Street, Glasgow, G4 0UW
- OS grid reference
- NS 602 651
- Coordinates
- 55.85943, -4.23404
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
R F and J Alexander's Cotton Spinning Mill, located at 100 Duke Street in Glasgow, was designed by Charles Wilson in 1848. Originally built as a cotton spinning mill, it was later converted into a hotel for working men, opening in 1909, and featured a 200-foot long roller skating rink with a maple floor, designed by architect Neil C Duff. The original building showcases a plain Italian Renaissance style and is constructed with fireproof materials, including jack-arches, brick on the lower floors, and concrete on corrugated arched plates for the upper floors.
The mill is a massive symmetrical block with six storeys above a sunken basement, plus an additional attic storey designed by Duff above the main cornice. The front façade is also massive and symmetrical, featuring shallow advanced three-bay ends, with a neo-baroque doorcase at the centre. The exterior is finished in painted ashlar with rusticated quoins and dressings, primarily featuring basket-arched openings on the ground floor, while the decoration above the ground floor is minimal. The roof is concealed from view from the street.
Local climate
R F And J Alexander's Cotton Spinning Mill, 100 Duke Street, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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