116-120 Argyle Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. Warehouse. 6 related planning applications.
116-120 Argyle Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- grey-terrace-moss
- 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
- 116-120 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G1 3LB
- OS grid reference
- NS 589 650
- Coordinates
- 55.85829, -4.25438
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
116-120 Argyle Street in Glasgow is a Renaissance style warehouse designed by William Spence in 1873. The building stands four storeys tall, with a modern attic and a shop front at ground level.
The facade is symmetrical, featuring eight bays on the first, second, and third floors arranged in a 3-2-3 pattern. The exterior is made of ashlar stone. There is evidence of a former porch below the cills of the central bipartite windows on the first floor, which have pilastered jambs. Each group of windows is flanked by carved panels with shell motifs in the entablature above.
The second floor has round-arched windows with attached column jambs and masque keystones, with each group flanked by paired, attached Ionic columns and an entablature above. The third floor mirrors the second but features segmental-headed windows and lacks a frieze below the cornice. The main dentil cornice is supported by paired brackets, with a slightly projecting segmental pediment over the central bays that breaks into the parapet. There is a regrettable flat-roofed attic addition.
Local climate
116-120 Argyle 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 — 6 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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