164 Yorkhill Street is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970.
164 Yorkhill Street
- WRENN ID
- rough-timber-hawthorn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- OS grid reference
- NS 565 659
- Coordinates
- 55.86489, -4.29357
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building at 172 Yorkhill Street is a former drill hall designed by William Hunter McNab of Leiper and McNab in 1901, with alterations made in 1925 and converted into residential accommodation around 2000. It showcases a mix of castellated Tudoresque and Arts and Crafts architectural styles. Notably, the 4-storey brick and timber addition to the east is excluded from the listing.
The principal (east) elevation features two intricately detailed entrances. The left side is taller, with two angled sections surrounding a canted, recessed stone entrance bay that has a pedimented doorway adorned with finials and rounded columnettes extending two storeys, which also serve as window mullions. The right entrance is a wider arched doorway set in a semi-circular polychrome brick tower, which includes small tripartite windows and a deeply overhanging conical slate roof positioned between two lower pitched roof elements.
On the south elevation, there is a 3-storey, 3-bay section on the right and a 2-storey, 10-bay section on the left, featuring mullioned and transomed windows. The 2-storey section has arched windows on the ground floor, two of which are infilled former entrances, and there is a later alteration on the left upper floors due to the conversion to residential housing.
The building includes timber doors and multi-pane casement windows. The slate roofs are set behind castellated parapet walls, and cast iron rainwater goods are present.
Local climate
164 Yorkhill Street 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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