Auxiliary Accumulator Tower, West End Of Princes Street Docks, Govan Road, Glasgow is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 May 1987. Tower.

Auxiliary Accumulator Tower, West End Of Princes Street Docks, Govan Road, Glasgow

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 May 1987
Type
Tower
OS grid reference
NS 561 649
Coordinates
55.85609, -4.29941
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Auxiliary Accumulator Tower, located at the west end of Princes Street Docks on Govan Road in Glasgow, was designed by engineer Wm Alston and built in 1912. This square brick campanile tower features tall arched recesses on each side. One of these recesses contains an arched doorway flanked by two arched windows, all accented with band courses. The tower is topped with a bold dentil cornice and a low pitched Italian roof, which is finished with a ball finial.

Local climate

Auxiliary Accumulator Tower, West End Of Princes Street Docks, Govan Road, 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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