1-5 Gordon Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 July 1988. Tenement. 7 related planning applications.

1-5 Gordon Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
broken-flagstone-grain
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 July 1988
Type
Tenement
Address
1-5 Gordon Street, Glasgow, G1 3PL
OS grid reference
NS 589 652
Coordinates
55.86011, -4.25463
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 1-5 Gordon Street in Glasgow, dates from around 1826 and is a four-storey plain classical tenement featuring modern shops on the ground floor. It has a facade that consists of 10 bays across and is constructed of polished ashlar. The main sash and case windows are set within architraves, with lugged detailing on the first and second floors. There is a cornice above the ground floor, and the windows on the first and second floors also have cornices. The building is topped with an eaves cornice and a blocking course, along with reduced wallhead stacks and an axial stack.

Local climate

1-5 Gordon 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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