Ascot Cinema, 1544 Great Western Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 July 1989. Cinema.
Ascot Cinema, 1544 Great Western Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- upper-lancet-sparrow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1989
- Type
- Cinema
- OS grid reference
- NS 549 686
- Coordinates
- 55.88915, -4.32121
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ascot Cinema, located at 1544 Great Western Road in Glasgow, was designed by architect C J McNair in 1939. Originally a super cinema, it was converted into flats with the façade retained in 2001. The building features a symmetrical stepped elevation facing Great Western Road, with curved three-quarter height stair towers at the outer bays. The central block is recessed and has five bays, with an entrance on the ground floor and windows on the first floor. The walls are rendered and painted white, with some exposed band courses. The stair towers are adorned with cream faience tiling, accented by bands of contrasting colour near the top.
Local climate
Ascot Cinema, 1544 Great Western Road, 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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