36, 38 West Prince's Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1986.
36, 38 West Prince's Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- swift-wall-sage
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1986
- OS grid reference
- NS 580 664
- Coordinates
- 55.87035, -4.26967
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
4 West Prince's Street in Glasgow is a terraced tenement building dating from around 1850, designed by John Bryce and related to Queen's Crescent. The structure is three storeys high with a basement and features advanced terminal pavilions. It has 34 bays arranged in a pattern of 5-24-5.
The exterior is finished in polished ashlar, with a channelled effect at the ground level and some parts painted. Steps lead down to the basement, where there are paired pilastered doorpieces, each with a recessed door that has pilastered reveals and a fanlight above. The upper windows are all architraved, with cornicing at the first floor and pediments at the pavilions. Most of the sash windows have 12-pane glazing patterns.
Additional architectural details include a moulded string-course above the ground floor, a band course at the cills of the third floor, an eaves cornice, a blocking course, and a deep plain parapet at the pavilions. The building has wallhead and axial stacks and is topped with slate roofs. There are cast-iron railings surrounding the basement area and steps, although some are partly damaged.
The five-bay flank facing St George's Road is detailed to match the pavilions, and there are shops located at the ground level, featuring a central doorpiece that is architraved, consoled, and corniced.
Local climate
36, 38 West Prince's 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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