60-62 Buchanan Street, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Commercial building. 10 related planning applications.
60-62 Buchanan Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- salt-chimney-evening
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 60-62 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, G1 3JE
- OS grid reference
- NS 590 652
- Coordinates
- 55.85955, -4.25402
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
60-62 Buchanan Street in Glasgow is a commercial building designed by Robert Thomson, with assistance from Andrew Wilson, between 1894 and 1896. This seven-storey structure features a free style of architecture and is constructed from red sandstone ashlar, with a brick rear and a modern ground floor. The building has a narrow gable frontage facing Buchanan Street.
The Buchanan Street elevation showcases a broad, canted five-light window that extends from the first to the third floors in each bay, set within a recess. Above this, there is a semi-elliptically arched five-light window on the fourth floor, adorned with carved angels in the spandrels. Figures are positioned under canopies on the outer piers at the fourth floor, and a serpentine balcony complements the fifth floor window. The gable window is topped with a heavily consoled semi-circular canopy, and the stepped gable is decorated with elaborate scrolls, pendants, and finials.
On the south side facing Springfield Court, there are five narrower bays, each designed similarly to the central bay on Buchanan Street, with only the outer west bay featuring a gable. The remaining bays have paired arched windows on the seventh floor, topped with a parapet and a wallhead stack. The sash and case windows are fitted with plate-glass glazing.
Local climate
60-62 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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