69, 71 Queen Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. Warehouse. 1 related planning application.

69, 71 Queen Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
sombre-forge-oak
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 September 1989
Type
Warehouse
Address
69, 71 Queen Street, Glasgow, G1 3BZ
OS grid reference
NS 591 652
Coordinates
55.85937, -4.25249
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

69 and 71 Queen Street in Glasgow is a seven-storey warehouse built in 1899 by George S Kenneth. The building features four irregular bays and includes offices and shops adorned with classical details. The polished granite shop front at ground level has a cornice and entrances located to the left of center and at the outer right, with two-leaf panelled doors. Above the ground floor, the structure is made of red sandstone ashlar.

The central section has paired windows, while the outer bays are tripartite, with the left bay canted at the corner. The first-floor windows have simplified Gibbsian blocks, and there is a balustraded balcony across the second floor. The tripartite windows on the third and sixth floors have pilastered mullions, with attached columns for the fourth and fifth floors, and for the central windows of the fifth floor. The third-floor tripartites feature boldly corbelled cills.

A modillion cornice is present on the fourth floor, along with a consoled main cornice that has a parapet and urn finialled dies. Below the cills of the paired windows on the fourth floor, there is carved detail, and the sixth-floor windows have billet moulded cills above swagged ornament. The second and third floors display armorials, one heraldic and the other initialled. A swan-neck pediment crowns the central light of the canted bay at the parapet.

The return elevation has two bays of paired windows and a chamfered angle to the west, with a door at ground level. This area is currently under alteration as of 1988. The rear elevation is constructed of brick and features stepped and paired stair windows at the center, along with a metal fire escape.

Local climate

69, 71 Queen 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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