Calton Police Building, 92 Tobago Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 July 1988. Former court and police station.
Calton Police Building, 92 Tobago Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- calm-soffit-fern
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1988
- Type
- Former court and police station
- OS grid reference
- NS 604 643
- Coordinates
- 55.85224, -4.2304
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Calton Police Building, located at 92 Tobago Street in Glasgow, was designed by John Carrick and constructed between 1868 and 1869. This former court and police station is a two-storey, seven-bay structure featuring classical detailing. The exterior is made of ashlar stone with polished dressings, a channelled ground floor, and quoins.
The central entrance is highlighted by architraves and panelled pilaster strips that support a console-corniced doorpiece. The ground floor windows are adorned with voussoired lintels, and there is a band course that runs above both the ground and first floors. The first-floor windows are also architraved and corniced, complete with aprons. A deeply projecting cornice and a blocking course add to the building's architectural interest.
At the rear, there are brick ranges that may have been added later, featuring barred cell windows and a decorative stack.
Inside, the court room boasts an elaborately plastered coved ceiling, embellished with three-dimensional rosettes and a very elaborate ventilator rose.
Local climate
Calton Police Building, 92 Tobago Street, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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