People's Palace Museum, 1, 1A Glasgow Green, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Museum. 2 related planning applications.

People's Palace Museum, 1, 1A Glasgow Green, Glasgow

WRENN ID
first-gallery-briar
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
Museum
Address
People's Palace Museum, 1, 1A Glasgow Green, Glasgow, G40 1AT
OS grid reference
NS 600 642
Coordinates
55.8512, -4.2374
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The People's Palace Museum, located at 1 and 1A Glasgow Green in Glasgow, was designed by A B MacDonald, City Engineer, and constructed between 1894 and 1898. This museum features a large winter garden that nearly spans the full width of the southwest rear wall. The building is designed in the Renaissance style and is elaborate, with three stories that are symmetrical, featuring a prominent central section and ends. It is constructed of red ashlar stone and showcases rich sculptural details. The ground floor has arched and channelled detailing, while the first floor is adorned with Corinthian columns and a balustrade. The second floor features statuary, and there is a dome over the center of the roof.

The museum has French roofs, which are slated, over the ends. Inside, there is a grand central staircase that includes art nouveau detailing in its wrought-iron balustrades.

The winter garden is a massive structure, fully glazed above a red ashlar base, with cast-iron and steel framing. It has a curved end, which is D-shaped in plan, and features decorative cast-iron columns and brackets inside, along with latticed steelwork. Additionally, paired stair and lift shaft turrets were built against the rear wall of the museum between 1988 and 1990, replicating the brick and red sandstone of the original structure.

Local climate

People's Palace Museum, 1, 1A Glasgow Green, 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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