71-79 Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 April 1992. Unknown. 8 related planning applications.

71-79 Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow

WRENN ID
silent-timber-barley
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 April 1992
Type
Unknown
Address
71-79 Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow, G20 8PA
OS grid reference
NS 571 676
Coordinates
55.88035, -4.28503
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 71-79 Queen Margaret Drive in Glasgow, dates from around 1875 and is a three-storey tenement with eight irregular bays, situated on a curve that is prominently visible from Queen Margaret Bridge. The structure features ashlar stonework, with a rusticated finish at the ground level. It has a cornice above the ground floor, cill courses on the first and second floors that are bracketted, and an eaves cornice. Below the bracketted corniced windows on the first floor, there are shallow aprons. The windows are sash and case style, with a two-pane lower sash and either a six-pane or four-pane upper sash. The outer bays of the terrace include tripartite windows, and there are two canted windows near the center of the building's composition. The entrance features panelled doors with rectangular fanlights. The side elevation facing Clouston Street is plain. The building is topped with slate roofs and has wallhead and end stacks.

Local climate

71-79 Queen Margaret Drive, 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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