Glasgow Herald Building, 60-76 (Even) Mitchell Street, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Commercial building. 7 related planning applications.
Glasgow Herald Building, 60-76 (Even) Mitchell Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- old-sill-sedge
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Commercial building
- OS grid reference
- NS 589 652
- Coordinates
- 55.85963, -4.25554
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Glasgow Herald Building, located at 60-76 Mitchell Street in Glasgow, was designed by John Keppie and Charles Rennie Mackintosh between 1893 and 1895, showcasing the Glasgow style. This six-storey commercial building features ten asymmetrical bays and a ten-storey tower at the northwest corner. It is constructed of polished ashlar and includes Art Nouveau details. The octagonal corner tower is adorned with pilasters and an Art Nouveau doorpiece, flanked by two arched windows with stylised keystones. Each floor has three windows; the first, second, and third floors have single windows, the fourth floor features bipartite windows with glazed tympanum, the fifth has two single windows, and the sixth has three. The seventh storey is corbelled and blank, decorated with curvilinear motifs, while the eighth has small pilastered windows. The ninth floor includes a gallery and set-back round-arched windows beneath an oversailing bellcast lead roof. The elevation facing Mitchell Street consists of 1-2-14-1 bays. The ground floor has loading bays divided by piers, a narrow entrance, and three round-arched southern bays with modern infill and additional loading bays. The upper floors repeat the main detailing of the building.
Local climate
Glasgow Herald Building, 60-76 (Even) Mitchell 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 — 7 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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