Kelvinway Gate Piers, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1986. Gatepiers.

Kelvinway Gate Piers, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
other-cloister-bittern
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 May 1986
Type
Gatepiers
OS grid reference
NS 568 661
Coordinates
55.86692, -4.28859
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Kelvinway Gate Piers are 19th-century structures located at the ends of Kelvinway, where it meets University Avenue and Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. There are two pairs of drum gatepiers made of polished ashlar, featuring bands and a base of vermiculated rustication. The gatepiers at University Avenue also support decorative wrought-iron lamp brackets.

Local climate

Kelvinway Gate Piers, Sauchiehall 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

See all similar buildings →

this building   1 similar   nearby listed buildings

Nearby listed buildings

  1. 1055, 1057, 1059 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Grade C 46 m
  2. 1061 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Grade C 48 m
  3. 1065 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Grade C 59 m
  4. 1264, 1268 Argyle Street, Glasgow Grade B 65 m
  5. 1272, 1274, 1276, 1278 Argyle Street, Glasgow Grade B 70 m
  6. 1287, 1291, 1295 Argyle Street, Glasgow Grade C 104 m
  7. 1297, 1299, 1301, 1303 Argyle Street, Glasgow Grade C 107 m
  8. 1263 Argyle Street Grade B 113 m
  9. 1307, 1309, 1311, 1313 Argyle Street, Glasgow Grade C 113 m
  10. 1315, 1317, 1319, 1323 Argyle Street, Glasgow Grade C 122 m