147 St Vincent Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 July 1988. Commercial building.
147 St Vincent Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- ancient-eave-crimson
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1988
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 147 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5NW
- OS grid reference
- NS 586 654
- Coordinates
- 55.86167, -4.26022
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
147 St Vincent Street in Glasgow is a free classical commercial building designed by W Hunter McNab (Leiper and McNab) around 1904-1905. The structure is built of ashlar and consists of six storeys, including a basement that faces Wellington Street. It features a façade with three rows of seven bays.
The ground floor has an arched design with a cill band and includes three-light windows facing St Vincent Street and two-light windows on Wellington Street. There is a prominent double doorpiece with pilasters and recessed, double arched entrances. The first floor showcases bipartite windows with column mullions, while the outer bays on St Vincent Street have shouldered windows set in panels on the second floor.
Giant Roman Doric columns, supported by corbels, rise through the third and fourth floors. The third floor also features keyblocked arched recesses in the central bay on St Vincent Street and in all bays on Wellington Street. The attic has simple bipartite windows. The building is adorned with sash and case windows that have glazing bars, with eight panes in the upper sash and two in the lower. A projecting main modillion cornice crowns the structure, and the sixth floor has bipartite windows separated by pilasters. The building is topped with a die parapet. Additionally, No 68 St Vincent Lane is connected to No 89 Wellington Street by arched gangways.
Local climate
147 St Vincent 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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