Babbity Bowster's, 18 Blackfriars Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. Public house.

Babbity Bowster's, 18 Blackfriars Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
steep-vault-wren
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 September 1989
Type
Public house
OS grid reference
NS 597 650
Coordinates
55.85861, -4.2428
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Babbity Bowster's is a three-storey, five-bay house located at 18 Blackfriars Street in Glasgow, likely designed by Robert and John Adam and built around 1790. The building was restored between 1984 and 1986 and is currently a public house. The polished painted ashlar frontage features a tripartite doorpiece with engaged Tuscan columns that support an entablature and a balustraded parapet. The ground floor has full-height shop windows with small pane glazing, which are flanked by panelled pilasters. On the first and second floors, there is a blind window in the centre bay flanked by two single lights, all of which are sash and case windows with 12-pane glazing. A band course runs above the ground floor and at the cills of the first and second floors. The building is topped with a simple pediment that includes a central blind oculus.

Local climate

Babbity Bowster's, 18 Blackfriars 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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