Tower Dene, 523 Anniesland Road, Scotstounhill, Glasgow is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 July 1989. House.
Tower Dene, 523 Anniesland Road, Scotstounhill, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- unlit-truss-rowan
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow West MP: Patricia Ferguson (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1989
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 531 682
- Coordinates
- 55.88536, -4.34902
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Tower Dene is a prominent house built around 1900, located at 523 Anniesland Road in Scotstounhill, Glasgow. This two-storey and attic asymmetrical house features a conservatory and is situated on a corner site. The exterior is made of red sandstone with bull-faced and specked polished ashlar dressings. A bold angle turret crowns the building with a steeply bellcast and copper-domed roof.
The entrance is located in a projecting porch facing Anniesland Road, which includes paired arched windows and a scooped parapet. To the right, there is a projecting square bay with tripartite windows on each floor, and at the extreme right, a single-storey curved bay. The elevation facing Southbrae Drive features a full-height canted bay with four lights on the left side. The large conservatory on the south elevation has a red tile ridge that matches the main roof. All windows are sash and case with plate glass. The house has deep eaves, a slate roof, a red tile ridge, and shouldered stacks on the north and south sides, with a gable end on the west.
Additionally, there is a single-storey garage block to the west of the house.
Local climate
Tower Dene, 523 Anniesland Road, Scotstounhill, 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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