61-65 Glassford Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. Warehouse. 5 related planning applications.
61-65 Glassford Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- endless-vestry-rain
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 September 1989
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- 61-65 Glassford Street, Glasgow, G1 1UG
- OS grid reference
- NS 593 651
- Coordinates
- 55.85891, -4.24914
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
61-65 Glassford Street is a warehouse building designed by Robertson and Dobbie, completed in 1908. It features a Glasgow-style design with five bays facing Glassford Street and four bays on Wilson Street. The exterior is made of red sandstone ashlar, with a polished granite base course for the shop fronts and main entrance. Above the shopfronts, there is a modillion cornice and a cill course at the fourth floor, along with square piercings in the ashlar parapet.
On the Glassford Street elevation, there is a round-arched, keystoned doorway at the center, surrounded by a cavetto moulded surround. This keystone supports a canted oriel window with stone transoms at the first floor, which culminates in a cornice adorned with decorative cast bronze balcony railings. The central bay is flanked by corbelled cornices on pilasters between the ground and first floors. The entrance features two arched panelled doors with inner small-pane and saloon doors, detailed with a pediment. A segmentally arched window at the center of the second floor, also with a keystone, supports the cill of a third-floor window that has a similar keystone. Piers flank a dated panel on the parapet of the central bay, and the second-floor windows have bowed cills that are corbelled. An initialled (WFC) cartouche is located above the ground floor at the angle with Wilson Street, which sweeps into the wall-pane above the first floor. Water-spouts are positioned at the base of a jettied Mackintosh-style polygonal tourelle that breaks the eaves at the fourth floor.
The Wilson Street elevation features a round-arched, keystoned entrance on the outer left, with stepped stair windows in the bays above. The second-floor windows on both sides of the center have bowed corbelled cills with segmental hoods. The windows are fitted with plate-glass lower sashes and two-pane upper sashes. There is a decorative wrought-iron gate and overthrow on the Wilson Street elevation.
Inside, the building was remodeled by T M Millar in 1965. The ground floor features a Glasgow Style timber balustrade on the stair, and a modern lift has been inserted at the center of the original stairwell.
Local climate
61-65 Glassford Street, 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 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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 — 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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