Wylie And Lochead, 21 Buchanan Street, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Warehouse/department store. 19 related planning applications.

Wylie And Lochead, 21 Buchanan Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
sheer-passage-elder
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
Warehouse/department store
Address
Wylie And Lochead, 21 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, G1 3HL
OS grid reference
NS 589 651
Coordinates
55.85868, -4.25559
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Wylie and Lochead is a four-storey, ten-bay warehouse and department store built around 1879 by William Spence. The building features classical details and has a modern shop front on the ground floor. Its facade is made of painted ashlar and is supported by a cast-iron frame. The entrance is highlighted by a coupled Corinthian pilastered doorpiece with a sculpted frieze. The first floor has plain pilasters, while a giant order of Corinthian pilasters rises from the second to the third floor, with a blind balustrade above the second-floor windows. There are sculpted details between the second and third floors, along with an entablature and a main cornice. The building is topped with a balustraded parapet and has a Corinthian columned interior.

Local climate

Wylie And Lochead, 21 Buchanan 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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