Cabinet Works, 53 Kent Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Factory, flatted housing. 1 related planning application.
Cabinet Works, 53 Kent Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- blind-lime-gorse
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Factory, flatted housing
- OS grid reference
- NS 578 658
- Coordinates
- 55.86443, -4.27353
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Cabinet Works at 53 Kent Road in Glasgow is a building designed by James Sellars of Campbell Douglas and Sellars, constructed between 1870 and 1873. Originally a factory, it has been converted into flatted housing and stands four storeys tall with a sunk basement. The facade features 19 unequal bays arranged in a 3-13-3 configuration, with three return bays to the east and west that are designed as pavilions, echoing the window arrangement found on Kent Road.
The outer bays are raised and include a shallow recessed three-bay section on the second floor, which has a three-light pilastered mullioned window flanked by single lights in the outer bays. The windows on the ground and first floors are plain, while the second floor features an architraved arched window adorned with paterae spandrels and a dwarf pilastrade in the frieze.
In the central section, the windows are paired with pilaster mullions on the second floor, which also has a cornice. The third floor is decorated with 13 lunettes. The building has a plain eaves entablature, parapets at the ends, and a hipped slate roof. Additionally, there are geometric cast-iron railings.
Local climate
Cabinet Works, 53 Kent Road, 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 — 1 application
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