71, 73, 75 Robertson Street, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Office. 3 related planning applications.
71, 73, 75 Robertson Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- old-hearth-thyme
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Office
- OS grid reference
- NS 585 650
- Coordinates
- 55.85824, -4.26157
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
71, 73, and 75 Robertson Street in Glasgow is a tall five-storey office building with an attic, designed in the Glasgow style by J A Campbell in 1901. It is constructed from red sandstone ashlar.
The main block facing Robertson Street features five bays with channelled piers at the ground level. The central entrance has a Doric columned doorpiece with an open pediment, adorned with lion heads and fruit. The first-floor windows are keystoned, and there is a galleried fourth floor supported by corbelled balconies and squat Doric columns. A deep bracketed cornice runs along the top of the building. To the south, there is a single bay flanked by pilaster strips, with corbelled details at the first floor and three-light windows, the fourth-floor window featuring a decorative head beneath a gable. The north angle is corbelled to a rounded shape for two storeys above the ground, with a ship's prow design under the central aedicule on the first floor. Swags connect cherubic head corbels that transition into a semi-octagonal shape from the third to the fifth floors, with angle strips and a Jacobean frieze above the fourth floor. The building has very deep eaves that encircle a stack at the south, topped with an ogee roof and an apex finial.
On Robertson Lane, there is one gabled ashlar bay, while the rest of the elevation is brick with simplified details, including segmental-headed, keyblocked windows arranged in pairs at the northwest angle. The rear (west) elevation consists of six unequal bays.
At the back, there is a semi-enclosed courtyard with glazed brick elevations and shallow canted bays featuring metal-framed casement windows.
Local climate
71, 73, 75 Robertson 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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