245, 247 West George Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Offices. 2 related planning applications.
245, 247 West George Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- far-rubble-saffron
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Offices
- Address
- 245, 247 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 4QE
- OS grid reference
- NS 585 655
- Coordinates
- 55.86272, -4.262
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
245 and 247 West George Street in Glasgow are three classical terraced houses built around 1830, now converted into offices. The buildings are three stories high with a basement, featuring three bays for each house and a stepped slope. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar, with some areas painted and a channelled design at the basement. The central section has been altered.
Each house has a Roman Doric fluted portico at the right-hand entry, which is positioned above steps that extend over the basement. The porticos feature triglyph friezes and cornices, with the door to number 241 blocked and replaced by a window. Most windows are sash and case, set within architraves, while the ground floor of the easternmost house has T-pane windows with leaded lights. The ground floor windows have cornices, and the first-floor windows also feature cornices on a cill band, with a sweeping design between the first two eastern houses. The eaves cornice is similarly swept, and there is a blocking course along the top. The buildings have corniced axial stacks.
On the rear elevation, the houses are finished in droved ashlar and include some 12-pane glazing. There are cast-iron railings and gates leading to the service entry, along with lamp standards.
Local climate
245, 247 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- 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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