188, 190, 192 West George Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 July 1988. Office. 5 related planning applications.

188, 190, 192 West George Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
sharp-remnant-laurel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 July 1988
Type
Office
Address
188, 190, 192 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 2NR
OS grid reference
NS 587 656
Coordinates
55.86284, -4.25899
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

188, 190, and 192 West George Street in Glasgow is a six-storey office building designed by Robert A Bryden in 1899, showcasing a free classical style. The building features five unequal bays, which are symmetrical up to the third floor, with the outer bays canted at that level. It is constructed of polished red ashlar and has sash and case windows set within simple architraves.

The central entrance is marked by swept parapet walls at the top of the steps, leading to a keyblocked arched entrance framed by a coupled column doorpiece and an open scroll pediment that includes relief sculpture in the tympanum. The ground floor also has plain flanking windows and a cornice.

On the first floor, the windows are set on a cill band, and there is a sculpted parapet above the outer bays. The central canted bay features an escutcheon that breaks through the carved parapet of the second floor. The second floor has scroll pediments with sculpted tympana above the outer bays and arched windows in the center.

The third floor includes a central colonnaded gallery with recessed glazing and a sculpted balcony, topped by figure sculpture in a broken segmental pediment. There is a bold modillion cornice at this level. The fourth and fifth floors are asymmetrical, with a canted balcony in the southern bay, an arched window in a cavetto recess above, and an elaborately sculpted shaped pediment with a clasping stack. The northern bays are also canted, featuring shaped lintels at the fifth floor and a sculpted pediment. The building is capped with a bell-cast roof and a finial, and there is recessed attic glazing in the central bays.

Local climate

188, 190, 192 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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