Waterloo Chambers, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 Waterloo Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Commercial building. 7 related planning applications.
Waterloo Chambers, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 Waterloo Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-steel-hyssop
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Waterloo Chambers, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 Waterloo Street, Glasgow, G2 6BZ
- OS grid reference
- NS 586 653
- Coordinates
- 55.86012, -4.25987
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Waterloo Chambers is a commercial building designed by Sir J J Burnet in 1899, showcasing a free classical style. The structure is symmetrical and consists of four storeys, with the outer single bays rising to five storeys. It features seven bays arranged in a 1-5-1 configuration. The ground and first floors are finished in polished red ashlar with a channelled appearance. The upper floors have sash and case windows with glazing bars in the upper panes.
The central entrance bay is architraved and includes a wrought-iron grille, while above it is a bay window with a broken pediment and a frieze that reads "WATERLOO CHAMBERS." The ground floor windows are plain. A boldly corbelled balcony on the second floor is flanked by figure sculptures to the left and right of the central bay. The outer bays above the first floor are plain, and there is a balustraded balcony at the fifth floor.
In the central five bays, the second floor features broken pedimented aedicule windows in the outer bays, with canted inner bays supported by pilasters and semi-engaged columns. This design is repeated above with an aedicule in the centre of the third floor, which also has a balcony. The fourth and fifth floors are recessed with plain outer bays, and coupled Greek Ionic columns support the balcony on the sixth floor, which breaks forward and is corbelled in the outer bays, with aediculed windows above. The eaves gallery includes anta and clasping columns, along with a bracketed cornice and a raised die in the outer bays.
Local climate
Waterloo Chambers, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 Waterloo 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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