The Grant Arms, 186, 188 Argyle Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 July 1988. Tenement, public house. 4 related planning applications.
The Grant Arms, 186, 188 Argyle Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- dim-gargoyle-gold
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1988
- Type
- Tenement, public house
- Address
- The Grant Arms, 186, 188 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G2 8HA
- OS grid reference
- NS 588 651
- Coordinates
- 55.8586, -4.25737
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Grant Arms is a four-storey and attic tenement located at 186-188 Argyle Street in Glasgow, originally built in the early 19th century and later remodelled in 1908 by J H Craigie of Clarke and Bell in the Art Nouveau style. The building features a three-bay façade with rendered stone and applied timber dressings.
On the first and second floors, there are canted bays adorned with decorative glazing bars, consisting of eight panes in the upper sash and two panes in the lower sash. These bays are separated by a continuous solid balcony supported by scrolled consoles with ball finials. The second floor has a bold cornice, and the individual solid balconies are connected by string courses, featuring elaborately carved crests on the third floor.
The third floor includes four-light windows with timber mullions and transoms, as well as moulded lintels. The arrangement of the third floor and attic bays is in a 2-1 configuration, with bold cornices at the third floor level. The dormers on this level are either segmental or triangular pedimented, and the attic features curvilinear pierced, swept parapets. A corniced wallhead stack completes the structure.
Local climate
The Grant Arms, 186, 188 Argyle 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 — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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