81 Ralston Avenue, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 February 1992. Villa. 2 related planning applications.

81 Ralston Avenue, Glasgow

WRENN ID
night-barrel-river
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Paisley and Renfrewshire North MP: Alison Taylor (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 February 1992
Type
Villa
Address
81 Ralston Avenue, Glasgow, G52 3NB
OS grid reference
NS 518 635
Coordinates
55.84219, -4.36756
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 81 Ralston Avenue in Glasgow, is a symmetrical two-storey double villa likely constructed in the 1870s or 1880s, drawing inspiration from the work of Alexander Thomson. The front features wide outer gables that are shallowly advanced, adorned with fret-worked barge-boards. At the first floor, there is a full-length continuous pilastrade between the gables, with a blind central light at the common wall and an axial stack above. A stone-bracketted iron-railed balcony adds to the design, while timber porches are positioned on either side. The windows are fitted with plate glass sashes, and there are end stacks. The villa has a broad-eaved slate roof and is constructed from stone-cleaned bull-faced ashlar with polished dressings.

Local climate

81 Ralston Avenue, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 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 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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