Hotel, 52 Virginia Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Classical tenement.
Hotel, 52 Virginia Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- shifting-paling-crow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Classical tenement
- OS grid reference
- NS 592 651
- Coordinates
- 55.85873, -4.24966
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building at 52 Virginia Street in Glasgow is a classical tenement dating from around 1800. It stands four stories tall and is constructed of ashlar, with the ground floor painted. The exterior features cill courses, a base course, and a main cornice.
On the northeast elevation facing Wilson Street, the facade has six bays. Each bay has consoled cornices above the windows, which are set slightly higher in the second and fifth bays, where there were originally doors. The later entrance is located to the right of the centre and features a panelled door. The first and second floor windows are architraved, with the first floor windows corniced. A fluted cill course is present on the first floor, and there is a pediment above the central four bays, flanked by a blocking course.
The west elevation facing Virginia Street has three bays and a pedimented gable. The ground floor is detailed similarly to the northeast front, while the upper levels are simpler, with blind windows at the centre and an apex stack.
The south (rear) elevation features a circular stairwell that is off-centre to the right, with a doorway at its base. The bays are irregularly spaced, and there are blind windows in the outer left bay. The building has plate-glass sash and case windows and is topped with a slate roof.
Local climate
Hotel, 52 Virginia Street, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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