101, 103, 103A St Vincent Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Commercial building. 8 related planning applications.
101, 103, 103A St Vincent Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- winding-brick-bramble
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 101, 103, 103A St Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5EA
- OS grid reference
- NS 588 654
- Coordinates
- 55.86131, -4.2571
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
101, 103, and 103A St Vincent Street in Glasgow is a classical commercial building designed by James Thomson of Baird and Thomson in 1876. This four-storey structure features a façade with 11 x 11 bays, constructed of ashlar stone that is channelled at the first floor. The building has sash and case windows, with a cornice at the ground floor and a cill band at the first floor. The first floor also has roll moulded window arrises and a plain moulded entablature topped with a mutule cornice.
On the second floor, there is a moulded cill band, and the bays are divided by a giant order of Corinthian pilasters that rise through the third floor, banded between floors. The pilasters are adorned with sculpted anthemia above the second-floor windows, which have roll moulded and architraved designs. The third-floor windows feature a moulded cill band with roll moulded arrises.
The main entablature is detailed with a bold rosette, a panelled frieze, a dentil band, and a modillion cornice. The parapet is panelled with piers and is partly balustraded. The roof is steeply pitched with a piended and platform slate design, and it includes corniced stacks. The design and detailing of this building are echoed in nearby structures on Renfield Street, while the treatment along the lane is simpler.
Local climate
101, 103, 103A St Vincent 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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