130-136 St Vincent Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 July 1988. Commercial building. 8 related planning applications.
130-136 St Vincent Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- long-gateway-rook
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1988
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 130-136 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5HF
- OS grid reference
- NS 587 654
- Coordinates
- 55.86187, -4.2579
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
130-136 St Vincent Street in Glasgow is a four-storey classical commercial building designed by James Thomson of Baird and Thomson in 1876. The structure features modern shops on the ground floor and consists of 10 by 14 bays. It is constructed of ashlar stone with channelled blocks at the first floor. The windows are sash and case with plate glass. The first floor has a plain entablature, while a modillion cornice crowns the building.
The façade includes a giant order of composite pilasters, which are banded with string courses from the second to the fourth floor. The second floor windows have lugged architraves and shallow block pediments adorned with anthemion acroteria. The fourth floor features roll-moulded margins and a moulded cill band that is interrupted by pilasters. The main modillion cornice is complemented by a panelled frieze with sculpted rosettes.
The details of the building extend two bays into West George Lane to the north. The elevation on Hope Street cleverly adapts to the slope of the site by reducing the storey heights of the first and second floors in the northern six bays. All second floor window heads are aligned at the same level, and the third floor maintains a consistent storey height and cornice level throughout.
Local climate
130-136 St Vincent 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 — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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