5-7 Wellington Street, Glasgow is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1997. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.
5-7 Wellington Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1997
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 5-7 Wellington Street, Glasgow, G2 8LY
- OS grid reference
- NS 585 651
- Coordinates
- 55.85901, -4.26137
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
5-7 Wellington Street in Glasgow is a five-storey and attic corner tenement building designed by Frank Burnet and Boston between 1896 and 1899. The building features Renaissance details and houses commercial premises over shops and a public house, highlighted by a prominent corner tower. It is constructed of red sandstone ashlar, with a channelled first floor and a cornice above that serves as a cill course for the second floor.
The façade includes tripartite windows with stone mullions, which are framed by giant pilaster margins that connect the second and third floors. The fourth floor features banded margins and colonnette mullions. The eaves cornice is accompanied by a balustrade that flanks raised dies or wallhead stacks. Carved cartouches are positioned between the second and third floors, dividing the bays. The public house has a fascia board that extends over the adjacent shops, which have modern windows and timber aprons.
The corner tower has two windows on each face at the first floor, with bowed tripartite windows on the second and third floors that are corbelled out above the first floor on a bracket and corbel course. The third-floor windows feature decorative baluster mullions and are topped with a cornice. The fourth floor has a regular tripartite window, while the tower head breaks the eaves with elliptically-arched tripartite windows on each face, flanked by Ionic capitalled pilasters and topped with a balustrade and dies.
On the Wellington Street elevation, the tower is located in the outer bay to the left, with three bays in the center and right. There is a door next to a covered pend on the outer right, and the public house occupies the center and left at ground level, with regular fenestration above. The Argyle Street elevation features the tower in the bay to the right, with the public house front at ground level in that bay, and modern shopfronts in the center and left bays. The upper floors have regular fenestration.
The windows throughout the building are plate glass timber sash and case. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
5-7 Wellington 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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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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