153 Trongate, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. 3 related planning applications.
153 Trongate, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- far-trefoil-storm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 September 1989
- Address
- 153 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HF
- OS grid reference
- NS 593 649
- Coordinates
- 55.85716, -4.24813
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
151 Trongate in Glasgow is a tall, four-storey warehouse built around 1860, featuring a palazzo-style front without columns. The building has five bays and a single bay return elevation to the west. The ground floor has been altered with modern shop fronts, while the upper floors are finished in polished painted ashlar.
All the windows are single light and have elaborately moulded architraves. The first floor features consoled pediments, the second floor has consoled cornices, and the third floor is keystoned. All windows are sash and case with plate-glass glazing.
Additional architectural details include a cornice above the ground floor, a moulded cill band at the second floor, and decorative rope moulding at the third floor cill band. The building also has an eaves band, a deep mutule main cornice, and slate roofs.
Local climate
153 Trongate, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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