139, 141 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 building.
139, 141 West George Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- frozen-cobalt-primrose
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1988
- Type
- Office building
- Address
- 139, 141 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 2JJ
- OS grid reference
- NS 588 655
- Coordinates
- 55.86213, -4.25697
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
139 and 141 West George Street in Glasgow is a six-storey office building with an attic and basement, designed by Robert Alexander Bryden around 1900. The structure features two unequal bays with tripartite and single light windows. It is constructed of polished red ashlar with a granite basement, and includes a polished granite stair and balustrade. The east bay is shallow and canted.
The building has sash and case windows with plate glass. The entrance is located to the right, framed by an architraved, shouldered lintel with a decorative cast-iron surround. A solid balcony on the first floor is supported by mask brackets and features a sculpted front, with a sculpted pediment above the central canted window. There is a cill band on the second floor, and the third floor windows have sculpted aprons and a cill band. A balustraded balcony on the fourth floor overlooks the canted bay, which has a semi-engaged Roman Ionic column and a mullioned window. The building is topped with a dentil band, cornice, and a sculpted frieze, culminating in a tall stylised pediment that includes an architraved, corniced oculus and flanking finials. The west bay features a scroll shoulder architraved pediment window.
Local climate
139, 141 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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