174, 176, 178 Byres Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 February 1989. Tenement. 8 related planning applications.
174, 176, 178 Byres Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- third-corbel-thunder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1989
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 174, 176, 178 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8SN
- OS grid reference
- NS 565 669
- Coordinates
- 55.87455, -4.29412
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
174, 176, and 178 Byres Road in Glasgow is a classical tenement building dating from around 1862. It features three stories and a curving corner design, with modern shops located on the ground floor along Byres Road and an attic that includes dormers at the rear. The facade consists of 17 unequal bays, with the eastern bay on Ashton Road being canted. The seventh bay is tripartite and is positioned above the entrance to No. 1 Ashton Road. The building is constructed of polished ashlar and has sash and case windows set within architraves. The windows along Byres Road are six-pane, while the curved section and those on Ashton Road have three panes with horizontal glazing bars. There are arched entrances at Nos. 1 and 3 Ashton Road, which feature cornices and guttae consoled details. The ground floor has a cornice, and the first-floor windows are also corniced, with a tripartite window above the entry at No. 1 Ashton Road. The building is topped with a plain eaves entablature and has corniced axial stacks.
Local climate
174, 176, 178 Byres 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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