Park's Motor Works, 40-44 Kilbirnie Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 March 1977. Industrial building.

Park's Motor Works, 40-44 Kilbirnie Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
lesser-arch-linden
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 March 1977
Type
Industrial building
OS grid reference
NS 584 638
Coordinates
55.84698, -4.2629
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Park's Motor Works, located at 40-44 Kilbirnie Street in Glasgow, was designed by R Henderson in 1913. This three-storey building features a six-by-nine bay layout constructed of reinforced concrete. The façade includes a segmental arched door adorned with a keystone, corbels, and a cornice. Large multi-paned steel-framed windows are arranged between tall pilasters, and the building has raised corner parapets. The rear is a plain blank brick panel, and the roof is flat. A central lift tower houses the original lift by R Waywood from London, which was used to transfer car bodies from the ground floor smithy to the first-floor joinery and second-floor painting and varnishing shops. The structure is also designed with piercings to accommodate line shafting.

Local climate

Park's Motor Works, 40-44 Kilbirnie 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 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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