Bow's Emporium, 61 High Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. Warehouse. 3 related planning applications.
Bow's Emporium, 61 High Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- crooked-string-yew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 September 1989
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- Bow's Emporium, 61 High Street, Glasgow, G1 1NW
- OS grid reference
- NS 597 650
- Coordinates
- 55.85782, -4.24293
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bow's Emporium is a later 19th century, three-storey and attic warehouse that was altered in 1908 by the architectural firm Burnet Boston and Carruthers. The building features rendered painted walling and a well-designed cast iron columned ground floor with a modern glazed frontage.
The elevation facing Bell Street consists of 12 bays, while the High Street elevation has 9 bays, highlighted by a central full-height arched window. All windows are single light and have been reglazed with modern pivot sashes. On the High Street side, the windows are flanked by giant order pilasters and are recessed. The Bell Street elevation includes masonry panels between the windows, with the second-floor windows being plain.
There is a cornice above the ground and first floors, with cill courses on the second floor. The eaves cornice features a deep parapet, and the dormers have pediments, with the angle dormers being more decorative and adorned with cartouches. The roofs are mansard slate roofs, with French roofs at the angles.
Local climate
Bow's Emporium, 61 High 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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