4, 5 La Belle Place, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Tenement.
4, 5 La Belle Place, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- inner-sentry-dust
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 4, 5 La Belle Place, Glasgow, G3 7LH
- OS grid reference
- NS 574 660
- Coordinates
- 55.86655, -4.27978
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
4 and 5 La Belle Place in Glasgow is an Italianate tenement building designed by Charles Wilson in 1857. It stands three stories tall and is thematically linked to the adjacent Queen's Rooms, which is the First Church of Christ Scientist. The building features eight main bays that step down the slope and are arranged in two-bay house sections, with a single return bay to the west. The exterior is made of ashlar stone.
At the top of a flight of stone steps, there are coupled pilaster doorpieces that frame recessed entrances with fanlights and sidelights. The first and fourth bays from the east are canted, while the fifth and eighth bays project as square tripartite corniced bays. Above the main openings on the ground and first floors, there are semi-circular sculpted shell or floral panels with flanking paternae. All windows are sash and case, set within architraves.
Additional architectural details include a basement band course, chamfered podia at the ground floor, and moulded cill bands on the first and second floors. The eaves feature a modillion cornice and a parapet. The western return bay mirrors the window arrangement of the main elevation. The building is topped with axial and gable stacks and has a slate roof.
Local climate
4, 5 La Belle Place, 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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