Sunlight Cottages, Kelvingrove Park, 2 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 February 1989.

Sunlight Cottages, Kelvingrove Park, 2 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow

WRENN ID
south-cobble-rye
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 February 1989
OS grid reference
NS 567 665
Coordinates
55.87055, -4.2917
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Sunlight Cottages, located in Kelvingrove Park on Dumbarton Road in Glasgow, were designed by James Miller and were inspired by Port Sunlight for the 1901 exhibition. They were presented to the City of Glasgow by Lever Brothers in 1901. The cottages consist of four asymmetrical, two-storey buildings with multiple gables, showcasing a Cheshire vernacular style. The structures are built of red brick with an elaborate timber-framed upper floor. Some gables are jettied and feature dragon beams, carved bressumers, and bargeboards, while the main west-facing gable is tile-hung. There is a single-storey service court to the east. The cottages have multi-pane casement windows of various sizes, a few small four-pane sash and case windows, and one window with modern metal glazing on the east side. The buildings also feature boldly detailed projecting chimney-breasts on the west, south, and east sides, with corniced and coped brick stacks, all topped with red tile roofs.

Local climate

Sunlight Cottages, Kelvingrove Park, 2 Dumbarton 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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