48 Queen Square, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. 1 related planning application.
48 Queen Square, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- vast-kitchen-gold
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow South MP: Gordon McKee (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Address
- 48 Queen Square, Glasgow, G41 2AZ
- OS grid reference
- NS 576 627
- Coordinates
- 55.8365, -4.27454
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
8 Queen Square in Glasgow is a late Georgian-style terrace building, constructed around 1864-1869. It is an unusually long two-storey structure with basements. The façade is made of polished ashlar, which has mostly been cleaned of dirt, and features channeling at the ground level. The first-floor windows are architraved and set between a cill band and an entablature, with sash windows that have a 4-pane glazing pattern. The building has chimney stacks and a continuous slate roof.
Local climate
48 Queen Square, 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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