Telephone Exchange, 124-30 Cubie Street, Glasgow is a Grade C listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 2004. Former telephone exchange. 1 related planning application.

Telephone Exchange, 124-30 Cubie Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
muted-joist-sepia
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 2004
Type
Former telephone exchange
Address
Telephone Exchange, 124-30 Cubie Street, Glasgow, G40 2AF
OS grid reference
NS 608 643
Coordinates
55.85244, -4.2237
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Telephone Exchange at 124-130 Cubie Street in Glasgow is a former telephone exchange built in 1910, designed in the 2-storey and basement L-plan Edwardian Baroque style. The main façade features red brick with a white Portland stone base course, eaves course, and cornice. It has a segmental pedimented doorpiece and decorative dressings, while the other elevations are finished with white-painted harl. The first-floor windows are adorned with keystoned surrounds.

On the principal (east) elevation, there is a prominent central doorpiece flanked by shallow pilasters, which are topped with a pair of consoles that support a segmental pediment featuring a wreath and festoons. The entrance is simply moulded and has a dentiled cornice. Above the entrance, there is an inscription reading 'TELEPHONE EXCHANGE', although it is partially obscured by a Royal Mail sign. Above this, a window sits beneath a broken cornice, with the date '1910' displayed at its center. To the right in the outer bay, there is a round arched opening at ground level, complete with a keystone and long and short dressings.

The north elevation is blank, while the west elevation consists of an 8-bay section with a flat-roofed projection on the left and a taller advanced section with a single bay in the re-entrant angle on the right. The south elevation is nearly blank.

The building predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows with horns, and there is a modern door on the east elevation. The interior was not seen as of 2004.

Local climate

Telephone Exchange, 124-30 Cubie Street, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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