49-53 Virginia Street, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Tenement. 7 related planning applications.
49-53 Virginia Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- veiled-wicket-onyx
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 49-53 Virginia Street, Glasgow, G1 1TS
- OS grid reference
- NS 592 651
- Coordinates
- 55.85893, -4.25012
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
49-53 Virginia Street in Glasgow is a symmetrical, five-bay tenement building that likely dates from the late 18th century and was reconfigured around 1800. It stands four storeys tall and features classical detailing. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and has a painted tripartite Ionic pilastered doorcase at the centre.
Notable architectural elements include a base course, a first-floor cill course, and a main cornice. Each floor has tripartite windows in the centre bay, with the first-floor window set in a recessed segmental panel. The architraves of the first-floor windows have incised ornamentation, and the windows flanking the centre feature a cornice. The ashlar parapet has a half-balustrade relief, which was damaged in the centre in 1988. The sash and case windows have a small-pane glazing pattern, and there are gable end stacks.
Local climate
49-53 Virginia 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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