223, 225 West George Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 September 1974. Terrace block. 2 related planning applications.
223, 225 West George Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- former-rafter-auburn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 September 1974
- Type
- Terrace block
- Address
- 223, 225 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 2ND
- OS grid reference
- NS 585 655
- Coordinates
- 55.86268, -4.26092
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 223 and 225 West George Street in Glasgow, dates from around 1830 and is a three-storey and basement flatted classical end terrace block. It consists of four by five bays, with the second bay from the north on West Campbell Street and the fourth bay on the second floor being blind. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar stone.
The entrances to the upper and ground floors feature a painted double anta with a mutule corniced doorpiece, and both have double-leaf panelled doors. All windows are sash and case, set within architraves. The ground floor windows have corbelled cills and cornicing, while the first floor includes a cill band and corniced windows. The second floor windows have dropped architraves. The building has an eaves cornice and a blocking course, with two reduced corniced wallhead stacks facing West Campbell Street. The roof is piended and covered with slate.
Local climate
223, 225 West George 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 — 2 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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