Sentinel Works, 61-89 Jessie Street, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 May 1991. Store.

Sentinel Works, 61-89 Jessie Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
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Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow South MP: Gordon McKee (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 May 1991
Type
Store
OS grid reference
NS 596 625
Coordinates
55.83527, -4.24228
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Sentinel Works, located at 61-89 Jessie Street in Glasgow, is an early ferro-concrete pattern store designed by Archibald Leitch, an engineer with Brand and Lithgow, and built between 1903 and 1904 for Alley and MacLellan, engineers. The building stands four storeys tall and features a layout of 12 by 3 bays. Its walls are made of concrete panels, and it has large metal-framed windows. The entrance bay is off-centre and includes a wide door with three tall lights above, which was added around 1930. The building is topped with a classical cornice and has a flat roof.

At the rear, the structure is similar in design, featuring a fire escape that cantilevers out on ornate cast-iron brackets.

Inside, the space is free of columns, with the load being entirely supported by the externally expressed frame. The top floor includes additional concrete cross pieces to accommodate the shelves of the pattern store.

Local climate

Sentinel Works, 61-89 Jessie Street, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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