Tunnel Street To Plantation Place, Harbour Tunnel, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 March 1986. Rotunda. 6 related planning applications.
Tunnel Street To Plantation Place, Harbour Tunnel, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- distant-vestry-magpie
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1986
- Type
- Rotunda
- Address
- Tunnel Street To Plantation Place, Harbour Tunnel, Glasgow, G3 8HL
- OS grid reference
- NS 571 651
- Coordinates
- 55.85847, -4.28322
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Harbour Tunnel in Glasgow features a rotunda designed by engineers Simpson and Wilson in 1888, with construction carried out by Alex Finlay and Co from 1890 to 1895. This rotunda is one of two built over the shafts that provide access to two vehicular tunnels and one pedestrian tunnel under the River Clyde. It has a diameter of 80 feet and consists of 16 bays, constructed from brick with stone cornices and cills. The arched windows are separated by brick pilasters that support a stone cornice and a brick parapet.
The vehicle entrance is marked by five cast-iron Corinthian columns that support steel girders. There are two arched pedestrian entrances that lead down timber stairs on steel girders to a five-bay timber pilastered ticket office and into the tunnel. A steel girder crosspiece spans the lift shaft, which is 72 feet deep and contains two vehicle tunnels, each 16 feet in diameter, at its base. The rotunda is topped with a steel-framed dome, featuring a slate and glazed roof.
Local climate
Tunnel Street To Plantation Place, Harbour Tunnel, 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 — 6 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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