166, 168 West George Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Commercial building. 5 related planning applications.
166, 168 West George Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- former-pavement-swallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 166, 168 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 2NR
- OS grid reference
- NS 587 655
- Coordinates
- 55.86275, -4.25825
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
166 and 168 West George Street in Glasgow is a building designed by John Baird and James Thomson between 1858 and 1860, reflecting a style from the 1830s. It has three storeys and features a five by nine bay layout. The exterior is made of polished ashlar stone, with the ground floor channelled and detailed with voussoirs, while the side and return elevations are finished in droved ashlar.
The central entrance features a fluted doorpiece with shaved capitals, situated at the top of steps that lead down to West George Street. There is also a segmentally pedimented doorpiece with consoles leading to an arched entry at No 175 Hope Street. The building sits on a plinth that rises with the slope of the hill.
All windows are sash and case, set within architraves. The ground floor has shallow arched windows above a cill band, along with a cornice. The first floor has a cill band with consoled, corniced windows that include inset moulded cills. The second floor features a cill band with corbelled plain windows. The eaves are adorned with an entablature and a modillion cornice, and the building is topped with a solid parapet that has regular coupled piers.
Local climate
166, 168 West George 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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