Central Fire Station, 23, 25, 27 Ingram Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. Fire station, flats.

Central Fire Station, 23, 25, 27 Ingram Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
last-attic-khaki
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 September 1989
Type
Fire station, flats
OS grid reference
NS 597 651
Coordinates
55.85899, -4.24234
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The former Central Fire Station, located at 23, 25, and 27 Ingram Street in Glasgow, was designed by A B MacDonald, City Engineer, and built between 1898 and 1900. It has been converted into flats as of 1988.

This building features four storeys and an attic, with polished red sandstone upper floors and polished pink Peterhead granite on the ground floor. The symmetrical nine-bay frontage faces Ingram Street and includes wide depressed-arch vehicle entrances, except for the central bay which has a bay window. The penultimate bays are adorned with two-storey canted oriels. The central bay has windows grouped in threes, flanked by pilaster strips. The remaining windows are alternately bipartite and single light, with stone mullions and transoms, and are sash and case with plate glass glazing.

The design includes band courses over each floor and at the cills, an eaves cornice, and a deep plain parapet. The penultimate and central bays are topped with triangular gablets that feature oculi and an apex finial. The building has tall, corniced wallhead and axial stacks, and the roofs are covered with slate. The rear elevation is finished in glazed brick.

Local climate

Central Fire Station, 23, 25, 27 Ingram 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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