157-159 Trongate, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. Warehouse. 7 related planning applications.
157-159 Trongate, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- second-chapel-rowan
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 September 1989
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- 157-159 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HF
- OS grid reference
- NS 593 649
- Coordinates
- 55.85714, -4.24839
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
157-159 Trongate in Glasgow is an earlier 19th-century warehouse that has been altered for use as shops on the ground floor. The building is four stories high and has seven bays, featuring painted rendered walling. The windows are single light, with those on the first floor set in lugged architraves that include panelled apron-blocks. The second-floor windows are also architraved and margined, while the third-floor windows are sash and case with plate-glass glazing. There are cill bands at the second and third cills, and the building has a moulded eaves cornice and blocking courses. Tie plates are present at the first and second floors, and the roofs are covered with slate.
Local climate
157-159 Trongate, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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 — 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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