959-963 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. 8 related planning applications.
959-963 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- weathered-timber-evening
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Address
- 959-963 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G3 7TQ
- OS grid reference
- NS 570 660
- Coordinates
- 55.86591, -4.28626
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
931-941 Sauchiehall Street is a classical tenement block built between 1857 and 1862. It stands three stories high with a basement and measures 42 by 10 by 3 bays. The building features polished ashlar stonework, with a channelled ground floor that is partly painted, and a droved ashlar basement. A cornice runs along the ground floor, while the first and second floors have a moulded cill band, an eaves cornice, and a parapet. All windows are 4-pane sash and case, set within architraves, with corniced and bracketed designs on the first floor and corniced on the second floor. The roof is slate.
The elevation facing Sauchiehall Street consists of 42 bays, with the first six bays from the east being advanced. This section has a higher parapet and a modillion cornice across the first twelve bays. The ground floor features alternating pilastered main door entries and architraved, corniced close entries with fanlights, although some alterations have been made at this level.
The Gray Street elevation has 10 bays, with the second and third bays from the north being blind. It includes two architraved entries and a corniced wallhead stack, along with a gable stack.
The Derby Street elevation consists of three bays and features a consoled, corniced entry and an end stack.
Local climate
959-963 Sauchiehall 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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