Fire Station, Gairbraid Avenue, Glasgow is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 July 1989. Fire station. 3 related planning applications.

Fire Station, Gairbraid Avenue, Glasgow

WRENN ID
tall-pilaster-amber
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 July 1989
Type
Fire station
Address
Fire Station, Gairbraid Avenue, Glasgow, G20 8YA
OS grid reference
NS 567 687
Coordinates
55.89066, -4.29141
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The fire station on Gairbraid Avenue in Glasgow was designed by city architect A B McDonald in 1892. It is a two-storey building featuring a four-arch arcaded garage front on the left, which connects the fire station to the Maryhill Public Baths. The offices of the fire station are located next to the Police Station on the right.

The fire station has a five-bay façade made of polished ashlar, with bi-partite and tripartite windows on the ground floor and single-light windows above, all fitted with plate glass sashes. There is a plain, wide doorway located centrally.

Notable architectural details include a band course above the ground floor at the first-floor cills and eaves, a plain main cornice, and slate piended roofs. The west side features a round arch arcade.

Local climate

Fire Station, Gairbraid Avenue, 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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