Grecian Chambers, 336-356 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Commercial building. 5 related planning applications.
Grecian Chambers, 336-356 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- iron-mortar-mist
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Commercial building
- OS grid reference
- NS 583 659
- Coordinates
- 55.86578, -4.26504
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Grecian Chambers is a three-storey commercial building located at 336-356 Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, designed by Alexander Thomson in 1865. This Graeco-Egyptian structure features a painted ashlar facade and has modern shops on the ground floor. The building is organized into 15 main bays across five sections.
The central entrance to the upper floors on Sauchiehall Street includes a ramped door framed by disc-decorated architraves and consoles, topped with a shallow block pediment that has an anthemion acroterion above the first-floor cill band. The wider outer bays on the first floor feature two-light windows with anta mullions, which are consoled and corniced, while above them are dwarf pilastraded three-light windows. These windows are adorned with block pediments that also have anthemion acroteria and a disc frieze, contributing to the raised parapet.
The central bays contain thirteen ramped, architraved, and corniced windows, each with incised friezes and anthemion acroteria. The second floor is characterized by a squat columned eaves gallery with recessed glazing, and the parapet is interrupted by podia. The continuous eaves frieze and cornice enhance the overall design.
On the elevation facing Scott Street, the first floor features five ramped, console corniced windows, while the second floor has an 11-light dwarf pilastrade with incised necking and wider outer bays.
Local climate
Grecian Chambers, 336-356 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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