43, 45 Virginia Street, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970.

43, 45 Virginia Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
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Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Address
43, 45 Virginia Street, Glasgow, G1 1TS
OS grid reference
NS 592 651
Coordinates
55.8588, -4.25014
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

37 and 41 Virginia Street in Glasgow is a symmetrical ten-bay tenement building, dating from around 1817, featuring classical architectural details. The building is constructed of ashlar and includes a base course, a moulded cill course at the first floor, and a main cornice. At the center, there is an arched pend with wrought-iron gates leading to Virginia Court, which is listed separately. The entrances at the third and eighth bays are Ionic pilastered, with fielded panelling on the two-leaf doors of the eighth bay. The outer bays have recessed segmental panels with inset doors. Two of the ground floor windows have been altered to bipartite style. The first floor features recessed arched panels with inset windows at the center, and architraves with incised ornamentation on the flanking windows, while the outer windows have plain designs. The second and third floors have plain windows in each bay. The rear elevation facing Virginia Court is rendered and lined, and the roof is covered with slates. Inside, there are winding stone stairs.

Local climate

43, 45 Virginia 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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