157-167 Hope Street, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 July 1966. Commercial building. 12 related planning applications.
157-167 Hope Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- odd-brick-rye
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1966
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 157-167 Hope Street, Glasgow, G2 2UQ
- OS grid reference
- NS 587 655
- Coordinates
- 55.86232, -4.25853
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
157-167 Hope Street in Glasgow is a commercial corner block designed by John A Campbell in 1902, featuring 7 and 8 stories with applied Renaissance detailing. The building is constructed of polished ashlar, with the first floor channelled. The elevation facing Hope Street consists of 9 bays arranged in a 1-2-3-2-1 pattern, while the elevation to West George Street has an asymmetrical design with 4 western bays detailed similarly to those on Hope Street. The ground floor mainly houses modern shops, and there is a central main entrance on Hope Street that features a sculpted head.
On the Hope Street elevation, there are 5 central second-floor windows with a solid balcony. The three central bays are grouped with advanced aedicules framing the outer windows, and these bays are further advanced on the 4th, 5th, and 6th floors. The outer bays feature oriel windows that rise from the 2nd to the 7th floors. The aediculed windows have open segmental pediments and sculpted tympana at the 6th floor, along with a sculpted eaves frieze that breaks through the main cornice and obelisk finials. The top two floors of the 7 inner bays are linked by a pilastered arcade and a corbelled balcony, with the 6th and 7th floor windows being deeply recessed and a deep cornice above.
The elevation to West George Street includes a bowed, turretted section in the 2nd bay from the east, topped with a bell-cast roof, and features a corniced wallhead stack to the left.
Local climate
157-167 Hope 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 12 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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