Greenhead Weaving Factory, 89-91 James Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1993. Factory, flats. 4 related planning applications.
Greenhead Weaving Factory, 89-91 James Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- turning-cellar-holly
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1993
- Type
- Factory, flats
- Address
- Greenhead Weaving Factory, 89-91 James Street, Glasgow, G40 1BZ
- OS grid reference
- NS 605 639
- Coordinates
- 55.84824, -4.22915
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Greenhead Weaving Factory, built in 1888 by Ninian MacWhannell, is a four-storey, 13-bay rectangular former weaving factory that has been converted into flats. The east elevation features a four-bay gable facing the street. The building is constructed of red brick in English garden wall bond, accented by white brick quoins and dressings. It has banded cill and lintel courses in white brick, with an additional banded course at the third floor on the east elevation. The openings are segmental headed, with raised concrete cills and chamfered stone cills at the ground level of the east elevation.
On the south elevation, the outer left bay at the ground floor is slightly recessed, and there is a chamfered base course for three bays to the right. A doorway with a replacement door and a blind fanlight is located to the left of center. The side elevations feature flat arched openings at the ground level of the outer right bays on both the north and south elevations. A stair tower is positioned at the outer left bay of the north elevation.
The building is topped with a pitched slate roof, which has ashlar coped skews and gableted skew putts on the north gable.
Local climate
Greenhead Weaving Factory, 89-91 James Street, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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