Kirkhaven, 176 Duke Street, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Church.
Kirkhaven, 176 Duke Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- riven-stronghold-lichen
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North East MP: Maureen Burke (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NS 605 650
- Coordinates
- 55.85876, -4.22988
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kirkhaven, located at 176 Duke Street in Glasgow, was designed by Peddie and Kinnear of Edinburgh between 1857 and 1858 as the Sydney Place United Presbyterian Church. It is built in the neo-Greek style that was popular among the United Presbyterians. The building features a classical temple front with a portico facing Duke Street, supported by a pair of giant Corinthian columns in antis and flanked by giant clasping pilasters. The central doorway is large and recessed, adorned with a disc architrave, a sculptured frieze, and a tympanum, along with antefixae. A deep entablature extends to the two-storey flanks of the structure. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar with architraved windows and a slate roof. Inside, there is a richly galleried interior. In 1975, the building was converted into a day centre. The left side features a low hall with a severe neo-Greek style, and there is an iron-railed enclosure.
Local climate
Kirkhaven, 176 Duke Street, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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