1-5 Glasgow Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1986. Tenement.
1-5 Glasgow Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- outer-entrance-umber
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1986
- Type
- Tenement
- OS grid reference
- NS 573 669
- Coordinates
- 55.87421, -4.28234
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 1-5 Glasgow Street in Glasgow, dates from around 1852 and consists of a range of tenements that also feature a similarly detailed return elevation to 46-48 Otago Street. It stands three storeys over a basement, with both elevations comprising nine bays. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar, with a channelled design at the ground level, and has been stone cleaned.
The main doors are framed by pilaster doorpieces topped with mutule cornices and have deeply recessed pilastered reveals. All upper windows are architraved, with a cornice at the first floor. The sash windows have 12-pane glazing. Notably, the first and fourth bays of 1 Glasgow Street feature tripartite mullioned windows, while the remaining windows are single light. There is a moulded band course at the first floor cills, along with an eaves course and cornice. The building has wallhead and axial stacks, and is topped with slate roofs.
Inside, the property features cast-iron balusters on the cantilevered stone stairs, and there are cast-iron supporting columns at each landing.
Local climate
1-5 Glasgow 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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