W. Hopwood & Company Ltd, 11, 13, 15 Bath Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 2004. Commercial building. 7 related planning applications.
W. Hopwood & Company Ltd, 11, 13, 15 Bath Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- idle-cobalt-ash
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 2004
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- W. Hopwood & Company Ltd, 11, 13, 15 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 1HY
- OS grid reference
- NS 590 656
- Coordinates
- 55.86337, -4.25394
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
W. Hopwood & Company Ltd is a six-storey and basement, six-bay U-plan Free Renaissance commercial building located at 11, 13, and 15 Bath Street in Glasgow, designed by Bruce & Hay and dated 1901. The building features a red sandstone ashlar facade on the street side, with squared and snecked red sandstone, white glazed brick, and harling on the other sides. Architectural details include a deep cill course at the first floor, cill courses on other floors, string courses, a deep eaves cornice, and a stylised parapet with pinnacles. The third-floor windows are adorned with broken and scrolled pediments, and there is a three-storey angle turret on the northeast corner that rises from the fourth floor.
The principal elevation is nearly symmetrical, featuring a near-central aediculated doorpiece with two pairs of polished granite Ionic columns. Above the doorpiece is a stylised keystone inscribed with '1901' and a scrolled pediment, flanked by modern shopfronts. The upper section has a two-bay area flanked by rusticated pilasters, with 'ALBERT CHAMBERS' inscribed between the second and third floors. There are two blind balustrade sections between the fourth and fifth floors. The building is flanked by paired two-bay tripartite canted bay sections with rusticated angle pilasters. The windows, except for the fifth floor where they are balustraded, are tripartite and feature four lights, articulated by Doric columns. The angle turret has scrolled and pedimented windows on the fourth and fifth floors, with a five-light window on the top floor separated by columns and topped with an open balustrade.
The east elevation has two projecting sections that flank a courtyard. The left section is a six-storey, three-bay harled area with a deep base course, while the right section is a six-storey, two-bay squared and snecked red sandstone area that deepens at the ground floor to accommodate the slope of the site. The courtyard bays are arranged in a 4-3-5 pattern from left to right, with a one-bay section in the re-entrant angle to the south, featuring white glazed bricks.
The south elevation is six-storey and harled, partially obscured by a building to the southwest. It predominantly features plate glass timber sash and case windows with horns on the north elevation, while replacement windows are present in the courtyard and south elevation.
Inside, the building has been substantially altered, but cast-iron columns remain at the ground floor. Some plain cornices can be seen beneath false ceilings in the offices, and the original lift and lift shaft by John Bennie of Glasgow are still extant, though not in use.
Local climate
W. Hopwood & Company Ltd, 11, 13, 15 Bath 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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