20, 22 King Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 1989. 1 related planning application.
20, 22 King Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- pitched-minaret-sparrow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 September 1989
- OS grid reference
- NS 594 648
- Coordinates
- 55.85671, -4.2467
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
26 and 28 King Street in Glasgow is an Edwardian Free style warehouse designed by John McKissack and Son between 1899 and 1902 for the City Improvements Trust. The building is five stories tall with an attic and features 14 bays arranged in a 2-1 (canted)-8-1 (canted)-2 configuration. It is constructed from red sandstone ashlar, with shops located on the ground floor.
All windows are framed with architraves, with pediments on the first floor and cornices on the third. The fourth-floor windows are round-arched with archivolts, while the outer bays have canted oriel windows on the first, second, and third floors. The fourth-floor windows feature bold keystones. The building includes a mix of single and tripartite sash and case windows, with 2-pane lower sashes and 12-pane upper sashes. Each floor has cill bands, and there is a main cornice along with a deep plain parapet. Shaped gables across the canted and flanking bays contain bipartite windows with strapwork windowheads.
Inside, the structure is supported by cast-iron columns. The return elevation to 62 Parnie Street is simpler in detail, featuring a six-bay design and a glass-roofed gallery in the attic.
Local climate
20, 22 King Street, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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