79-83 Trongate, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. 3 related planning applications.
79-83 Trongate, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- former-hearth-mint
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 September 1989
- Address
- 79-83 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HB
- OS grid reference
- NS 595 649
- Coordinates
- 55.85688, -4.2461
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
77 Trongate in Glasgow is a building designed by A B MacDonald in 1895 for the City Improvement Trust. It features a terrace of richly detailed Flemish/Baronial tenements with modern shopfronts at ground level.
The building has asymmetrical decorative facades, including an angled bay at the corner and a six-bay gabled elevation facing Trongate, while the longer elevation on King Street is plainer. It stands four storeys high with attics, constructed from polished cream ashlar. The windows include single light, bi-partite, and tripartite designs, with some canted oriels extending from the first to the third floor. Most windows are corniced or adorned with strapwork pediments, showcasing a variety of window head details. The attic storey features decorative Baronial dormer heads or crow-stepped gables.
The windows are sash and case style, fitted with plate glass and two-pane glazing. There are string courses between the floors, and at the eaves, a corbelled cornice is topped with balustrading over the canted windows. The roof is slate, with tall corniced axial stacks.
Local climate
79-83 Trongate, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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