134, 136 West George Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 May 1975. Commercial building. 4 related planning applications.
134, 136 West George Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- seventh-panel-woodpecker
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 134, 136 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 2HG
- OS grid reference
- NS 588 655
- Coordinates
- 55.8626, -4.25658
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
134 and 136 West George Street in Glasgow is a classical commercial building designed by John Burnet Snr in 1867. It stands three stories high with a basement. The ground floor was modified by James Thomson in 1898.
The exterior features polished ashlar stone, with a channelled design at the ground floor. The building has five by seven bays, with the first return bay from the south on Renfield Street being blind on the first and second floors. The ground floor has a later granite pilastrade with stone pedestals and corniced die walls, along with casement windows that include geometric glazing bars. There are two symmetrical projecting Ionic porticos with parapets above the steps that lead down to the basement on West George Street. The upper floors primarily have sash and case windows set within architraves, with a cill band on the first floor and another on the second floor. The eaves feature an entablature with advanced paterae and a rosette frieze, topped by a mutule cornice. The building is crowned with a balustraded parapet that has panelled piers and a corniced wallhead stack facing Renfield Street.
Inside, there is a banking hall with anta columns and a coffered, corniced ceiling.
Local climate
134, 136 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 — 4 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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