Metropolitan Vickers Offices, 74 Waterloo 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. 2 related planning applications.
Metropolitan Vickers Offices, 74 Waterloo Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- sheer-keep-barley
- 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
- Metropolitan Vickers Offices, 74 Waterloo Street, Glasgow, G2 7DA
- OS grid reference
- NS 584 653
- Coordinates
- 55.8608, -4.26311
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Metropolitan Vickers Offices, located at 74 Waterloo Street in Glasgow, is a five-storey commercial building designed by James Thomson in 1925. It features a modern classical style with Greek detailing and is situated on a corner, comprising five unequal bays across three sections.
The exterior is constructed of polished ashlar, with channeling at the first floor and angle strips. The ground floor has been altered, but it includes a tall corniced doorpiece at No 74 Waterloo Street, which is adorned with acroteria and a metal door featuring a paterae border. The ground floor cornice is decorated with a Vitruvian scroll. The first floor is low and has unfinished sculpture blocks facing Waterloo Street.
Above, the first floor cornice acts as a stylobate for giant pilasters that clasp at the corners, extending from the second to the fourth floor. These pilasters have stylised sculpted capitals, and the plain two-light sash and case windows are fitted with glazing bars. The building is topped with a bold cornice that includes coupled mutules and sculpted escutcheons.
Inside, there is a marble-lined vestibule.
Local climate
Metropolitan Vickers Offices, 74 Waterloo 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- 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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