144, 146 Argyle Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. 3 related planning applications.
144, 146 Argyle Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- guardian-sill-crow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Address
- 144, 146 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G2 8BL
- OS grid reference
- NS 589 650
- Coordinates
- 55.85837, -4.25547
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
134-156 Argyle Street in Glasgow is a free classical warehouse designed by Horatio K Bromhead and completed in 1903. The building stands six stories tall and features a canted angle turret. The ground floor has been modernized with shops, while the upper floors consist of 13 x 5 bays and a single corner bay. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar, with sash and case windows, some of which have been altered to T-pane casements set on a cill band, and graduated recessed architraves.
The façade is enhanced by a giant order of Corinthian pilasters and semi-engaged columns that rise from the first to the second floors, repeating this design at the third and fourth floors, with sculpted panels between the floors. A modillion cornice is present at the third and fifth floors, and there is a continuous balustrade with panelled, corniced piers.
The corner section features canted bays, a balcony at the first floor, and independent circular balconies at the second floor. Stylized Venetian windows with oculi above are located at the fourth and fifth floors, while a polygonal turret is topped with balconies, a consoled cornice, a balustrade, and a columned roof lantern.
On the elevation facing Argyle Street, the bays are arranged in a pattern of 3-1-3-1-3, with the three-bay sections breaking forward. The central doorway is flanked by stooping Atlantes that support a curving balcony at the first floor. Above this, independent balconies are found in the three-bay section of the second floor, which is pedimented and features a stepped balustrade and Venetian windows similar to those on the corner section at the fourth and fifth floors.
The elevation facing Buchanan Street features a three-bay section that mirrors the outer bays of the Argyle Street elevation.
Local climate
144, 146 Argyle 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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