24 George Square, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Office. 7 related planning applications.
24 George Square, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- roaming-keystone-plum
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Office
- Address
- 24 George Square, Glasgow, G2 1EG
- OS grid reference
- NS 591 654
- Coordinates
- 55.86133, -4.25181
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
24 George Square in Glasgow is an office building designed by James Sellars in 1874. It has three storeys, a mezzanine, and a basement, with an attic storey added later. The building is constructed from cream ashlar sandstone featuring vermiculated channelling that alternates with ashlar bands at the ground level and on the quoins. There is a cornice above the ground floor and a guilloche cill course at the second floor. The decorative eaves brackets are grouped in threes and fours beneath the original mutulated main cornice.
The entrance is round-arched, featuring a masked keystone and a moulded architrave with a guilloche frieze. It is complemented by decorative wrought-iron two-leaf gates and an overthrow, as well as window guards on the ground floor bipartite windows. Above the bipartite windows, there are swagged panels, with the mezzanine storey positioned above.
On the first floor, the aediculed windows each have a balustraded balcony and segmental shell pediments. The second floor and attic windows are architraved, with pilasters on panelled dies separating the attic windows and a modillioned cornice above. The rear of the building faces Anchor Lane. The glazing features a plate glass pattern, with some top-hopper windows.
Local climate
24 George Square, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- 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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