The George Hotel, 235-245 Buchanan Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Hotel. 16 related planning applications.
The George Hotel, 235-245 Buchanan Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- rough-rotunda-dew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Hotel
- OS grid reference
- NS 590 656
- Coordinates
- 55.86379, -4.25334
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The George Hotel, located at 235-245 Buchanan Street in Glasgow, was designed by Neil Duff in 1907 and showcases a free classical style. The building stands four storeys tall with an attic and features three main tripartite bays arranged in a 1-1-1 configuration, highlighted by a central recessed, bowed bay. The exterior is constructed of ashlar stone, with a channelled design at the first floor.
The ground floor is adorned with Roman Ionic pilasters and includes a central entrance with a columned doorpiece topped by a broken segmental pediment and a later canopy. To the left of the entrance, there is a carved timber frieze and pediment flanked by timber anta columns.
The first floor windows are fitted with upper leaded T-pane lights and pilaster mullions, complemented by a cornice. The second floor features a cill band, with anta mullioned and segmentally pedimented outer bays, as well as three central segmentally pedimented windows. The third floor windows have a bracketted cill band.
The building is finished with a plain frieze, a dentil band, and a pierced parapet. The dormers are architraved and pedimented, with one in the outer bays and two in the centre. The roofs over the outer bays are pavilion slate, while the centre has a semi-circular hipped roof. There are end and central stacks.
Inside, the hotel includes an elliptically arcaded vestibule screen and a corniced coffered entrance hall.
Local climate
The George Hotel, 235-245 Buchanan 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 — 16 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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