Montrose House, 187 George Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. Office block. 24 related planning applications.
Montrose House, 187 George Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- muffled-moulding-cedar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 September 1989
- Type
- Office block
- Address
- Montrose House, 187 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1YU
- OS grid reference
- NS 596 653
- Coordinates
- 55.86075, -4.24471
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Montrose House is a 7-storey office block designed by Stuart Sim in 1939 and built after the Second World War. The building features a symmetrical design with a basement and is constructed from ashlar-clad steel framing. Its rectangular elevations consist of 9 bays facing both George Street and Montrose Street. At the corner, there is a recessed taller drum tower with 4 windows and vertical fins. The main entrance is approached by steps at an angle, featuring a modern wrought-iron balustrade, metal-framed revolving doors, and a projecting concrete lintel.
The windows are bipartite in the drum tower and the end bays of each elevation, while the remaining windows are tripartite. All windows have metal-framed casements. In the drum tower, metal bands separate the floors, while the rest of the building is finished in ashlar. The tower is topped with a deep parapet that includes two flag poles.
The rear elevation features a curved glazed stairwell at an angle, with nearly symmetrical flanking bays that have horizontal metal glazing.
Local climate
Montrose House, 187 George Street, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 24 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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