15 Grosvenor Terrace, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 July 1966. 1 related planning application.
15 Grosvenor Terrace, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- old-wattle-grain
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow West MP: Patricia Ferguson (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1966
- Address
- 15 Grosvenor Terrace, Glasgow, G12 0TB
- OS grid reference
- NS 566 673
- Coordinates
- 55.87829, -4.29238
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
12 Grosvenor Terrace in Glasgow is a building designed by architect J T Rochead in 1855. The eastern half of the terrace was severely damaged by fire in 1978 and was rebuilt in 1980 using glass reinforced concrete, following the original facade design. This long, symmetrical terrace consists of houses that are painted ashlar, with Nos 1-10 now serving as the Grosvenor Hotel.
The terrace features 83 bays arranged in a pattern of 10-63-10, with shallow, advanced 10-bay terminal pavilions. It stands three storeys high over a basement. All openings are round-arched, with pilastered reveals that support a moulded archivolt featuring a bold keystone. These are set in rectangular recesses flanked by engaged columns of superimposed orders: Tuscan, Ionic, and Corinthian. Wide flights of steps with ashlar balustrades lead down to the entrances, which consist of paired doorpieces and windows topped with fanlights.
The glazing for Nos 10-17 includes sash windows with a three-pane glazing pattern and some acid-etched lower sashes. In contrast, Nos 1-10 (the Grosvenor Hotel) have modern pivot windows that maintain the original pattern. A heavy band course acts as a plinth for the columns at ground level, while above, entablatures serve as a plinth for the columns above, with triglyph-consoles supporting a heavy continuous ashlar balcony on the first floor, along with a cornice above it. There is a panelled frieze at the eaves, and consoles support a mutule main cornice. The building features tall, corniced axial stacks with widely spaced cans and slate roofs.
The basement area is enclosed by cast-iron railings, and there are pairs of squat square ashlar gatepiers topped with ball finials at each flight of steps. The facade mouldings extend around to the first bay of the flanks. The eastern flank facing Byres Road has been reconstructed with a modern ground floor entrance. Inside, there is good plasterwork throughout, especially notable in No 17, along with some tiled fireplaces and good cast-iron balusters on the stairs.
Local climate
15 Grosvenor Terrace, 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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- 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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