20-40 Gordon Street, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Commercial building. 14 related planning applications.
20-40 Gordon Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- rough-lantern-cedar
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 20-40 Gordon Street, Glasgow, G1 3PU
- OS grid reference
- NS 588 653
- Coordinates
- 55.8607, -4.25604
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
20-40 Gordon Street in Glasgow is a four-storey classical commercial building designed by Peddie and Kinnear in 1873. The structure features modern shops on the ground floor and consists of 16 x 16 bays, constructed from polished ashlar. All windows are sash and case with plate glass. The entrance at No 30 Gordon Street is consoled and pedimented, adorned with an acroterion and antefixae.
The ground floor has a cornice and retains remnants of the original shop fronts. Above, there are superimposed anta orders; the first floor has a stylised pilastrade with wider angle pilasters on a continuous podium. The second floor features a continuous podium pilastrade, while the third floor has a pilastrade with recessed, two-light windows that include pilaster mullions. The main entablature is topped with a cavetto cornice. There is a splayed wallhead stack facing West Nile Street, and the cornice returns one bay to the west at the northmost bay on West Nile Street. The rear elevation has corniced wallhead stacks made of brick.
Local climate
20-40 Gordon 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 14 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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