545, 547, 549, 551, 553, 555, 557 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Tenement. 11 related planning applications.

545, 547, 549, 551, 553, 555, 557 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
white-portal-onyx
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
Tenement
Address
545, 547, 549, 551, 553, 555, 557 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G3 7PQ
OS grid reference
NS 578 659
Coordinates
55.86604, -4.27307
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 545, 547, 549, 551, 553, 555, and 557 Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, dates from around 1860 and is a three-storey classical tenement with modern shops. It features eight unequal bays arranged in a 1-6-1 pattern, with tripartite outer bays. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar, and there is a cornice at the ground floor level. The windows are four-pane sash and case types set within architraves. The first floor has a console cornice and a pediment above the central light of the outer bays, while the second floor includes a corbelled cill band and architraved windows. The building is topped with a plain entablature that has a modillion cornice and a parapet. The main elevation is a single-bay western return.

Local climate

545, 547, 549, 551, 553, 555, 557 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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