131 St Vincent Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 July 1988. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.

131 St Vincent Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
still-paling-saffron
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 July 1988
Type
Commercial building
Address
131 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5JF
OS grid reference
NS 587 654
Coordinates
55.86149, -4.25886
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

131 St Vincent Street in Glasgow is a modern classical commercial building designed by James Napier of Laird and Napier architects between 1927 and 1929. It has five storeys and a mezzanine, and is four bays wide, constructed of ashlar stone. The tall ground floor features an architrave in the entrance bays that encloses a tall fanlight mezzanine. The left three bays at ground and mezzanine level are linked by a frame supported by distyle in antis, with Ionic order columns flanking the moulded door frame. The entrance includes glazed side lights and a mezzanine, along with bronze outer entrance doors.

Originally, there was a side entrance to the upper floors in the westernmost bay, which has since been converted to a window opening with a banded, keyblocked surround to the upper light. The ground floor cornice is supported by carved consoles. The windows on the first, second, and third floors are vertically linked in recesses, featuring keyblocked segmental arches at the third floor level, with the second bay from the east being consoled. The building predominantly has small-paned windows in metal frames throughout. The main entablature includes a dentilled cornice and a parapet.

The interior has been partly altered, featuring a marble-lined entrance hall with a stained glass window at the rear in the light well, as noted in the previous listed building record.

Local climate

131 St Vincent 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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