Elmslea, 124 Observatory Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 July 1987. Villa. 1 related planning application.
Elmslea, 124 Observatory Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- bitter-rafter-snow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow West MP: Patricia Ferguson (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1987
- Type
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NS 564 673
- Coordinates
- 55.87821, -4.29694
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Elmslea is a mid-19th century, two-storey villa located at 124 Observatory Road in Glasgow. The exterior features droved painted ashlar with polished margins. The ground-floor windows are designed with depressed arches and hood-moulds, while the first-floor windows are round-arched with bracketed cills, all fitted with plate glass sashes.
The villa has an asymmetrical three-bay elevation on the south side, showcasing a canted window on the ground floor to the right, and a bipartite window above it with a column-mullion. The entrance on the east flank is stepped back and includes a painted timber porch with openwork spandrels. The round-headed moulded doorway has double-leaf doors, and the vestibule features a tripartite door with glazed acid-etched lights.
On the west elevation, there are two bays with projecting single-storey windows; the left window is square, while the right is canted and has a bipartite window above it. At the rear, there is a lower two-storey service wing. The villa is topped with timber bracketed eaves, corniced wallhead stacks, and slate roofs.
The property is enclosed by stugged coped ashlar boundary and retaining walls, which include two pairs of tall corniced ashlar gatepiers.
Local climate
Elmslea, 124 Observatory Road, 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 — 1 application
- 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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