Chemist, 9 West Graham Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Dispensary.
Chemist, 9 West Graham Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- quartered-bailey-moon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Dispensary
- OS grid reference
- NS 585 661
- Coordinates
- 55.86796, -4.26151
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Chemist at 9 West Graham Street in Glasgow is a Scots Renaissance dispensary building designed by James Sellars of Campbell Douglas and Sellars, constructed between 1882 and 1884. It features a one-storey and attic structure with a two-storey central section and a tower, built from snecked rubble. A continuous basement band course runs along the building.
All windows are sash and case, primarily with eight-pane glazing. The two-storey polygonal tower is positioned in the re-entrant angle of the double gabled blocks and has a ground floor moulded cill band. It contains three windows, with the central window replaced by a commemorative plaque set in a columned niche above. The building has an eaves cornice and a blocking course, topped with a candle-snuffer, slated roof that includes lucarnes.
The single bay entrance section features pilasters and a recessed entry, with a fanlight that has a semi-circular Gibbs surround. There are two slim round-headed leaded lights with stone transoms, flanked by sculpted relief panels. The gable includes a sculpted panel and a ball finial. The lower three-bay section has symmetrical windows on the ground floor, a sculpted frieze that reads 'Sick Children's Dispensary', and three pedimented attic dormers, along with a gable finial. The roof is also slate.
Local climate
Chemist, 9 West Graham 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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