Procurator Fiscal's Office, Custom House, 298-306 Clyde Street, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Office. 1 related planning application.

Procurator Fiscal's Office, Custom House, 298-306 Clyde Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
sacred-gateway-rye
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
Office
OS grid reference
NS 588 648
Coordinates
55.8564, -4.25659
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Procurator Fiscal's Office, located in the Custom House at 298-306 Clyde Street in Glasgow, is a Grade A listed building designed by John Taylor in 1840. This former customs office is two stories tall and features a Greek Revival architectural style. The façade consists of nine bays, with a five-bay central section that projects forward.

The building is constructed from polished ashlar stone, with the ground floor channelled to serve as a plinth. The central entrance is highlighted by a pediment and pilasters. All windows are sash and case, arranged symmetrically with six or nine panes of glazing per sash, and feature cills on the ground floor and both floors in the outer bays.

On the first floor, there are Greek Doric semi-engaged columns arranged tetrastyle in antis. The building has a continuous eaves entablature adorned with a triglyph frieze and a plain cornice. A blocking course rises to form a corniced parapet in the outer bays of the central section, with the centre elevated to create a podium for a sculpted coat of arms. There are single bay later additions to the east and west, which include elliptically headed pends with Venetian windows above.

Local climate

Procurator Fiscal's Office, Custom House, 298-306 Clyde 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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