202, 204, 206, 208, 210, 212 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 March 1977. Commercial building. 11 related planning applications.
202, 204, 206, 208, 210, 212 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- white-cornice-curlew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1977
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 202, 204, 206, 208, 210, 212 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3EF
- OS grid reference
- NS 586 658
- Coordinates
- 55.86523, -4.25991
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 202, 204, 206, 208, 210, and 212 Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, was designed by James Thomson of Baird and Thomson in 1902 and showcases a free classical style. It stands four storeys tall with double and single attics, featuring modern shops on the ground floor. The facade consists of nine unequal bays.
The ground floor has a cornice adorned with a cast-iron fretwork balustrade above the first-floor windows. All windows are sash and case. The first floor features a glazed pilastrade with carved friezes on the columns. Above this, there is a projecting entablature that supports two storeys of tripartite windows, which are either columned or pilastered and include carved heads.
The building has a boldly projecting eaves modillion cornice that supports a pierced parapet divided into five sections, situated above the double-storey attic windows. These attic windows are pilastered tripartite designs with a balustrade and individual bell-cast roofs topped with finials that break through the attic cornice. There are single-storey dormers, tripartite in design, featuring outer pilasters and inner Solomonic columns facing Sauchiehall Street, while composite columns are present on Cambridge Street, all topped with shaped pediments.
The building also has truncated pyramidal roofs at the corners, and there is a pend in the northmost bay on Cambridge Street, which is fitted with cast-iron gates.
Local climate
202, 204, 206, 208, 210, 212 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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