Crown Tea Rooms, 106-114 Argyle Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. 10 related planning applications.
Crown Tea Rooms, 106-114 Argyle Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- silver-chimney-elder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Address
- Crown Tea Rooms, 106-114 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G2 8BH
- OS grid reference
- NS 590 650
- Coordinates
- 55.85826, -4.25396
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an 18th century tenement located on Argyle Street in Glasgow, which was remodeled by David Barclay between 1898 and 1899. The building currently serves as offices and shops and consists of four storeys and an attic, featuring an asymmetrical design with ten bays. The exterior is harled, with a round arched pend located off-centre to the right and modern shop fronts on either side. The windows have jamb stops above the cills and below the lintels of the upper windows, with the eighth bay from the left being blind and smaller windows present at the first floor.
The building has a curvilinear gablehead above the three penultimate bays on the left, which includes a corbelled timber oriel and decorative cusped barge boarding. There is a shaped gablehead above three bays off-centre to the right, featuring fleur-de-lys embossing and gablehead stacks. Piended dormers are located above the outer bays, along with two decoratively gabled dormers situated between the gableheads. At the centre, there is a louvred tower with swept, overhanging eaves and a leaded finial atop a pyramidal roof.
The rear elevation, which faces Morrison Court, retains its original 18th century features with some alterations. It includes a stair turret on the left with two square windows facing the court, and a curvaceous doorpiece from 1898 adorned with intertwined Cs (Cranston). There is a dentil cornice leading to a conical roof that has lead small-pane casement windows, and the building is topped with a slate roof.
Local climate
Crown Tea Rooms, 106-114 Argyle 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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