20 Minerva Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. 1 related planning application.

20 Minerva Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
young-chimney-acorn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Address
20 Minerva Street, Glasgow, G3 8LD
OS grid reference
NS 572 657
Coordinates
55.86348, -4.28214
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building is a classical tenement constructed around 1856, located at 10 and 12 Minerva Street in Glasgow. It is four stories high and features shops along Argyle Street and the northern part of Minerva Street. The structure has a curving corner section with twelve bays, highlighted by a giant Corinthian pilastrade that extends through the first and second floors, complete with an independent frieze and cornice. The ground floor is finished in polished ashlar and is channelled, with an arcaded design. The windows on the ground floor are recessed and adorned with decorative glazing bars, primarily facing Minerva Street. The western bays along Argyle Street have been largely altered, although the westernmost bay still retains an arched close entry. The fifth bay from the west on Argyle Street is blind beneath a stack. The building features sash and case windows set within architraves, with twelve-pane glazing, and the windows on the first and second floors are corniced. It also has an eaves cornice and corniced ridge stacks.

Local climate

20 Minerva 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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