Assembly Building, Glasgow School Of Art, 18-26 Scott Street, 168 Renfrew Street is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 July 2006. Student centre.
Assembly Building, Glasgow School Of Art, 18-26 Scott Street, 168 Renfrew Street
- WRENN ID
- watchful-pilaster-pine
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 July 2006
- Type
- Student centre
- Address
- Assembly Building, Glasgow School Of Art, 18-26 Scott Street, 168 Renfrew Street, G3 6PE
- OS grid reference
- NS 584 660
- Coordinates
- 55.8665, -4.26405
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Assembly Building at the Glasgow School of Art, located at 18-26 Scott Street and 168 Renfrew Street, was designed by John Keppie and Henderson and constructed between 1927 and 1930. This rectangular-plan building features two and three storeys above a basement and is currently used as a student centre. The façade has six bays facing Renfrew Street and seven bays facing Scott Street, constructed from sandstone ashlar. Notable architectural details include prominent vertical mullions that divide the elevations into bays and decorative features at the eaves. The main entrance is located on the east side through a recessed bay, with two secondary entrances on the west elevation.
The windows on Renfrew Street are 12-pane timber sash and case and centre-pivot types, while the Scott Street elevation has large, predominantly fixed-pane metal windows. The building is topped with a slated piended roof and has truncated ashlar stacks, along with cast iron rainwater goods.
Inside, the general layout has been preserved, featuring offices on the ground floor and an assembly hall with additional offices above. A section of the ground floor along Scott Street was converted in the late 1970s to create a bar, which includes part of the interior from a 1930s café that was originally located at 445 Victoria Road.
Local climate
Assembly Building, Glasgow School Of Art, 18-26 Scott Street, 168 Renfrew Street 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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