Union Bank Of Scotland, 117 St Vincent Street, 115, 115A, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Commercial building.
Union Bank Of Scotland, 117 St Vincent Street, 115, 115A, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- tall-gutter-gilt
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Commercial building
- OS grid reference
- NS 587 654
- Coordinates
- 55.86134, -4.25783
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Union Bank of Scotland, located at 117 St Vincent Street in Glasgow, is an Italian Renaissance commercial building designed by John Burnet Snr in 1870. It features three storeys and a basement, with a total of seven bays. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar, with rusticated elements and voussoired lintels on the ground floor.
The building has outer distyle porticos supported by composite columns made of polished granite, which stand on high pedestals. Stone steps lead up to arched entrances that are adorned with fanlights. The modillion cornices add to the architectural detail. There are five inner windows with a simplified cornice that connects to the porticos.
The upper floors have plate glass sash and case windows set within architraves. On the first floor, there are balustraded balconies that project over the porticos and in three central bays, supported by sculpted figurehead consoles. A semi-engaged Corinthian colonnade projects forward, leading to segmental pedimented aedicules with sculpted tympana in both the outer and central bays.
On the second floor, the windows are framed with shouldered and lugged architraves above a cill band. The building features an incised eaves frieze and a stylised modillion cornice that is advanced with coupled consoles at the ends. The solid panelled die parapet is topped with swagged pyramidal finials.
Local climate
Union Bank Of Scotland, 117 St Vincent Street, 115, 115A, 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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