15 Blythswood Square, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. 1 related planning application.

15 Blythswood Square, Glasgow

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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Address
15 Blythswood Square, Glasgow, G2 4AD
OS grid reference
NS 584 656
Coordinates
55.86292, -4.26302
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

20 Blythswood Square in Glasgow is a classical terrace block built around 1823, featuring three stories and a basement. The building has 21 bays arranged in groups of three, with the outer bays raised and projecting forward to create pavilions. The ground floor is finished in polished ashlar with channeling, and there are voussoirs above the openings. The elevation facing Douglas Street is painted.

The building includes distyle Ionic porticos, which have been altered at No 20, and an Ionic pilastered, pedimented doorpiece at No 108 Douglas Street. All entrances at Blythswood Square are accessed via a stone stair that oversails the basement area. There is a basement band course and a cill band at the first floor. The windows are primarily sash and case, featuring 12 or 4-pane glazing. The ground floor openings are set in recessed arches, with windows that have moulded cills and aprons. The first-floor windows are architraved and corniced, with console detailing in the end sections, while the second-floor windows have plain architraves. The building is topped with an eaves cornice and a blocking course, and there are cast-iron railings.

To the rear, there is a three-bay return to Blythswood Street, which features a rising basement due to the slope of the land and repeats the detailing of the main elevation. There is also an eight-bay return to Douglas Street, with the second bay from the south being blind and two bays having splayed cornices. Wallhead stacks are present. Inside, some cast-iron street balusters remain.

Local climate

15 Blythswood Square, 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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