15-17 Hope 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. 4 related planning applications.
15-17 Hope Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- former-wall-dawn
- 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
- 15-17 Hope Street, Glasgow, G2 6AB
- OS grid reference
- NS 586 651
- Coordinates
- 55.85898, -4.25953
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
15-17 Hope Street in Glasgow is a five-storey commercial building designed by Sir J J Burnet around 1900. It features a severe astylar style and includes a public house on the ground floor. The building has four bays, with the outer sections advanced by a single bay. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar with a granite plinth.
The entry to the upper floors in the southernmost bay at No 15 is adorned with a bay-leaf ornamented hood and a fanlight. There is a cornice at the ground floor level. All windows are sash and case, set within architraves, with eight panes in the upper sash, two in the lower sash, and the first-floor windows in the outer bays are pedimented and corniced above.
The building features a plain entablature with a mutule cornice and a parapet that is raised in the outer bays. There is a short angled return bay with polished ashlar above the first-floor level, which has three storeys of single lights with narrow windows to the right. The public house includes leaded glass lights.
Local climate
15-17 Hope 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 — 4 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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