Kinning Park Colour Works, 73 Milnpark Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 June 1986. Office, laboratory. 2 related planning applications.

Kinning Park Colour Works, 73 Milnpark Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
strange-bonework-nettle
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 June 1986
Type
Office, laboratory
OS grid reference
NS 572 643
Coordinates
55.85153, -4.2826
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Kinning Park Colour Works is an ornate two-storey brick office and laboratory building, constructed between 1892 and 1893 by Bruce and Hay. It features a wide-gable front facing the street. On the left side, there is an off-centre aedicule doorway adorned with a "HH" mosaic and flanked by recessed demi-columns beneath a segmental pediment. To the right, there is a cart entrance with the original door, set under concentric polychrome brick arches. The first floor includes two round-headed bipartite windows, two oculi, and a third oculus located in the gable head. The building is topped with shaped skews and skewputts, along with a ball finial. The side elevations are decorated with a dentil cornice, and the roof is slate.

Local climate

Kinning Park Colour Works, 73 Milnpark 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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