5, 7, 9 Water Row, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 May 1987. Former YMCA. 3 related planning applications.

5, 7, 9 Water Row, Glasgow

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 May 1987
Type
Former YMCA
Address
5, 7, 9 Water Row, Glasgow, G51 3UW
OS grid reference
NS 554 657
Coordinates
55.86338, -4.31155
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

5, 7, 9 Water Row in Glasgow is a building designed by William Tennant in 1897. It is a four-storey structure with an attic and features three bays, constructed from red ashlar stone.

The ground floor has an arched entrance flanked by two large modern shop windows. A central canted window extends from the first to the third floors. The upper floor windows are designed with mullions and transoms, featuring multi-pane upper lights. There is a string course above each storey, and the building is topped with a main cornice and a parapet that includes two pedimented dormer windows with ball finials. A central Venetian dormer window with a segmental pediment sits in front of a steep square slate roof adorned with brattishing.

The elevation facing Pearce Lane has a simplified but similar design, featuring a large gable-end stack with flanking windows and urn finials. The western bay includes an arched ground floor door that is partially blocked, a first-floor cross window, and a tall arched mullion and transom window that rises through the second and third floors, providing light to the stairs. The rear of the building is constructed from brick. Inside, there is a simple tiled stairway with a wrought-iron banister.

Local climate

5, 7, 9 Water Row, 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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