16 Buchanan Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. Commercial. 1 related planning application.
16 Buchanan Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- worn-thatch-umber
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 September 1989
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 16 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, G1 3LB
- OS grid reference
- NS 589 651
- Coordinates
- 55.85856, -4.25435
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
16 Buchanan Street in Glasgow is a commercial building designed by James Thomson between 1888 and 1889, with a fourth floor and above added around 1904 to 1905 by Frank Burnet, Boston and Carruthers. This seven-storey structure, which includes an attic, features a simplified Venetian Renaissance style. It has five bays facing Buchanan Street and two bays that return to Morrison Court. The building is constructed of ashlar, with modern shops on the ground floor. The first floor has pilastered panels, while the second floor is adorned with pilasters. The third floor showcases a colonnade with swagged Ionic capitals and arched keystoned heads. The fourth floor has pilastered and keyblocked windows, and the fifth floor is colonnaded with recessed arched windows. The sixth floor features architraved windows, and there is a modillion cornice above. A tripartite pedimented dormer is set within a balustraded parapet, and the roof is pitched slate with a platform section. The windows are made of plate glass and include sash and case designs.
Local climate
16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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