116, 118, 120 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 July 1988. Tenement. 6 related planning applications.

116, 118, 120 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
stranded-minaret-sage
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 July 1988
Type
Tenement
Address
116, 118, 120 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3DH
OS grid reference
NS 588 658
Coordinates
55.86489, -4.25743
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 116, 118, and 120 Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, dates from around 1845 and is a four-storey tenement with modern shops at the ground level. It features five by six bays, with the second bay from the east on Sauchiehall Street and the fourth bay on the first and second floors being blind. The first return bay to Hope Street and the fifth return bay at the ground floor are also blind.

All windows are architraved, primarily sash and case. There is a band course at the ground floor and cill bands on the first and second floors. The eaves have a mutule cornice. On the first floor, the central window facing Sauchiehall Street is consoled, while the other windows are corniced and bracketted, featuring alternating segmental and triangular pediments. The second floor windows are also corniced and bracketted, with a pediment on the central bay facing Sauchiehall Street. The third floor has plain windows. The building has a slate roof, with one wallhead stack reduced on each elevation.

Local climate

116, 118, 120 Sauchiehall 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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