78-82 Union 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. 2 related planning applications.
78-82 Union Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- drifting-column-pine
- 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
- 78-82 Union Street, Glasgow, G1 3QS
- OS grid reference
- NS 588 652
- Coordinates
- 55.85959, -4.2565
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
78-82 Union Street in Glasgow is a four-storey and attic commercial building designed in a free classical style, dating from around 1880, with a ground floor bank added in 1924 by Andrew Balfour and Stewart. The building features a symmetrical five-bay ground floor and seven windows above, with a polished ashlar and granite-faced ground floor. The windows have been altered over time.
On the ground floor, the outer entrance bays project forward and have architraved doorpieces, along with a triglyph frieze that includes relief profile panels. The central bays have been partially altered and are separated by fluted, semi-engaged Roman Doric columns. A mutule cornice runs along the ground floor.
The upper floors display a window arrangement of 2-3-2. The first floor features anta pilastraded glazing and a dentil cornice, while the second floor has a plain anta pilastrade. The third floor is adorned with Corinthian pilasters and features arched openings with scroll keyblocks and ovolo archivolts. A panelled frieze with sculpted rosettes and a dentil band is present, along with a cornice that is bracketted over the central bays.
The roof is a hipped design with shaped lintels and includes two segmentally pedimented, aediculed dormers in the pavilion roof, as well as end stacks and a central dormer. The die parapet and balustrade have been removed, and the building is topped with a slate roof.
Local climate
78-82 Union 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 — 2 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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