137 Trongate, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. Warehouse.
137 Trongate, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- grim-floor-yew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 September 1989
- Type
- Warehouse
- OS grid reference
- NS 594 649
- Coordinates
- 55.85706, -4.24771
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
137 Trongate in Glasgow is a four-storey, three-bay warehouse designed by architect James Sellars in 1885, showcasing a Free Renaissance style. The building is constructed of polished red ashlar stone, although the ground floor features a modern shopfront that detracts from its original appearance.
The first floor has banded masonry and a wide central tripartite shallow-bowed oriel, flanked by polished red granite Ionic columns. This oriel is accompanied by single lights on either side. The second floor features a central three-light canted window, with all bays bordered by pilasters and pilastered reveals. The third floor is galleried, with windows arranged in a 2-3-2 grouping, separated by engaged pillars that connect to a columned arcade.
The first-floor windows are sash and case with plate-glass glazing, while the second and third floors have two-pane casements. Each floor is topped with a cornice, with a delicate festoon frieze on the first floor. The eaves cornice is complemented by a fine wrought-iron balustrade at the parapet, with die pedestals on either side and corniced end stacks. The building is topped with slate roofs.
Local climate
137 Trongate, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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