16-18 Argyle Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. Shop, warehouse. 6 related planning applications.
16-18 Argyle Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- leaning-granite-lichen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 September 1989
- Type
- Shop, warehouse
- Address
- 16-18 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G2 8AD
- OS grid reference
- NS 592 650
- Coordinates
- 55.85781, -4.25042
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
16-18 Argyle Street in Glasgow is a five-storey, seven-bay by thirteen-bay Art Deco shop and warehouse designed by James Monro and Son between 1929 and 1931. It is located on a corner site, featuring a chamfered corner above the ground floor that creates a tower effect, complemented by rib-fluted and squat parapet details. The building has ashlar cladding on a steel frame, possibly made of Portland stone, while the rear elevation is constructed of red brick, channelled at the first floor with a rib-fluted band course above. The ground floor has a ribbed cornice and decorative cast-iron aprons at the centre bays on the third and fourth floors. The fenestration is regular, with modern shop fronts at the ground level.
On the Argyle Street elevation, the arrangement is 1-5-1 with narrow outer bays. Giant ribbed pilasters separate the five central bays from the second floor upwards, featuring a fluted course above a blank frieze, all enclosed within a large moulded architrave and topped with a blocking course.
The Virginia Street elevation consists of five bays to the left, detailed similarly to the Argyle Street elevation, and eight bays to the right, which include a four-storey section with a dormered attic and wider outer bays, finished with a plain eaves course. The building predominantly features plate glass glazing in metal casement windows and has a concrete flat roof.
Local climate
16-18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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