279, 281, 283, 285 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 November 1993.

279, 281, 283, 285 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow

WRENN ID
calm-footing-dust
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow West MP: Patricia Ferguson (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 November 1993
Address
279, 281, 283, 285 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow, G11 6AB
OS grid reference
NS 559 665
Coordinates
55.87064, -4.30444
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

271, 273, 275, and 277 Dumbarton Road in Glasgow is a four-storey tenement building designed by Campbell Douglas and A N Paterson, built between 1910 and 1912. This red sandstone structure showcases the Glasgow style and features shops on the ground floor. The façade is made of polished ashlar, with snecked rubble on the east gable and brick on the west gable. The building has 11 bays, with alternating shallow canted bays, and other windows set in recessed panels that extend through the first and second floors. A massive cornice is located at the second floor, and the main cornice is accentuated by large panelled and keyblocked chimney stacks that rise prominently, including a canted stack at the west corner.

Local climate

279, 281, 283, 285 Dumbarton Road, 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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