1072, 1076, 1078, 1080 Argyle Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 July 1988. 1 related planning application.
1072, 1076, 1078, 1080 Argyle Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- haunted-rubblework-holly
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1988
- Address
- 1072, 1076, 1078, 1080 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8LY
- OS grid reference
- NS 571 658
- Coordinates
- 55.86472, -4.28349
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 1094, 1098, and 1100 Argyle Street in Glasgow, dates from around 1854 and is a four-storey tenement with modern shops on the ground floor. It features traces of original shop fronts and has 26 bays facing Argyle Street, along with four unequal return bays. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar, and it has sash and case windows, although some have been altered to casement style. The 10th and 17th bays from the east and the 1st bay from the south on the return are blind. The building has an eaves cornice and a parapet, with axial stacks that have been rebuilt.
On the elevation facing Argyle Street, there are three groups of bays: 3-17-3. The outer bays are advanced, and the 1st, 3rd, 21st, and 23rd bays feature tripartite windows with stone mullions, which are consoled and corniced with ramped lugged architraves at the first floor, repeated at the second floor without consoles. The central bays are corniced at the first floor, with lugged architraves at both the first and second floors, and recessed margins at the third floor. There are cill bands at the first, second, and third floors.
The elevation facing Kelvingrove Street includes a recessed pilastered close entry, with the 1st bay from the south being blind. It has a cill band at the first and second floors, with corniced windows and a wallhead stack. Some later dormers have been added.
Local climate
1072, 1076, 1078, 1080 Argyle 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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